Word: nyasaland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates, there was still the problem of how to enlighten the world. In a 115-page report, Britain's neon-bright Biologist Julian Huxley told the delegates what had been done in this direction during his second year as director general. His report mentioned a "pilot project" in Nyasaland for the education of natives in literacy, health, agriculture and commu nity living. There had been a survey started on re-education in Germany, and the launching of an "Inquiry into the Tensions Affecting International Understanding," to find out why people get so mad that they...
...Empire Builder Cecil John Rhodes in Rhodesia's capital of Salisbury, noted reflectively the marble finger pointing north, the pedestal inscription: ''Your hinterland lies there." He became the busy-tongued champion of Huggins' Plan No. 1: to amalgamate the British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland with the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, form one big (488,300 sq. mi.) Dominion in the British Commonwealth. That idea made him a Prime Minister...