Word: movement
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brahman-born and British-bred, Nehru had returned home to provincial Allahabad with his sense of innate superiority re-enforced by seven years of upper-class education at Harrow, Cambridge and London's Inner Temple, where he qualified for the bar. Already a romantic dabbler in the independence movement, Nehru agreed to accompany some oppressed peasants to their primitive village. What he saw there filled him "with shame and sorrow -shame at my own easygoing and comfortable life, sorrow at the degradation and overwhelming poverty of India." He saw his homeland as "naked, starving, crushed and utterly miserable...
This was not to be; last week Nkrumah's obedient press in Ghana was lambasting Mboya as being a "stooge of imperialism" and "under the thumb of the Americans." The reason: Mboya had dared to challenge Nkrumah in the race for leadership of the budding trade-union movement in Africa...
Neutralist Nkrumah, with Partner Sékou Touré in neighboring Guinea, would like to build an "independent" union movement in Africa and cut labor ties with the free world's International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, but many suspect this merely conceals an inclination to affiliate with a Communist-backed rival, the World Federation of Trade Unions. Mboya's union headquarters in Nairobi was built with $35,000 contributed by U.S. unions, and Mboya himself is a staunch supporter of I.C.F.T.U. as well as chairman of its union organization in East, Central and Southern Africa...
...conference in Lagos, Nigeria, almost next door to Nkrumah, to form the first All-Africa I.C.F.T.U. labor organization. Ghana stalled for months before replying, finally sent word that the idea of a conference was all right, but that it should be held in Accra, "capital of the All-Africa movement." Mboya declined to change the site, tartly pointing out that Nigeria, with a population of 35 million, is the largest African country. Ghana decided to call a trade-union conference of its own at the same time as Mboya...
...Through the Ooze. Scientist Teilhard believes in evolution, not just as a matter of accepting Darwin; evolution for him is the mystical key to existence, the movement of the universe toward God. But God does not appear in Teilhard's book until the very end, and then under a different name...