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Word: ministere (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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By law, a British Prime Minister is required to go to the people every five years -sooner if he thinks the time propitious. The Tories' five-year deadline is next May, but the betting is that Harold Macmillan will call an election in October or November. Reason: he is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Out in Front | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

"The Only Criterion . . ." Even at his most extreme, the white man is fighting only a delaying action, and any idea that the European in Africa does not know this does him an injustice. Everywhere north of the Limpopo the whites are working for some kind of multiracial solution. In the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RESTLESS AFRICA | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

The phrase "individual capacity" is both the measuring stick and the debating point. Even Southern Rhodesia's liberal ex-Prime Minister Garfield Todd, so reviled by his fellow whites for "pushing the Africans forward," would limit the franchise. After all, it is only eleven years since Britain itself abolished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RESTLESS AFRICA | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

In many African territories illiteracy runs as high as 90%, and everywhere the Dark Continent is, like no other place on earth, dark at night. After the cook fires are out, superstition flourishes. Ghana's Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah once explained the need for rural electrification by saying, "One...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RESTLESS AFRICA | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

Variations on a Theme. But the whites know that their time of unquestioned domination will soon be over. South Africa's Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd himself-the ruthlessly logical racist who looks so much like a kindly Kris Kringle -has lately added a "positive" side to apartheid. "In the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RESTLESS AFRICA | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

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