Word: nyasaland
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...source of the Nile, they filtered into East Africa, crossed the Mountains of the Moon, established Kenya Colony and Uganda Protectorate. Farther south, other Britons followed Rhodes, carved out Northern and Southern Rhodesia in his name, and planted the Union Jack in a dozen native kingdoms, e.g., Bechuanaland, Basutoland, Nyasaland...
...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...
...Falkland Islands and the Seychelles; to Grenada and the Windward Islands; to the "Council and Chiefs of the Gold Coast, Ashanti and the Northern Territory and to all members of the community"; and to "all sections of European, Asiatic and African communities of His Majesty's subjects in Nyasaland...
...bridge means uninterrupted railway communication between Beira, Portuguese East African port, and Lake Nyasa, important link in the water route to the interior. Nyasaland, a British protectorate, ships its tobacco and other products through Beira on the Mozambique Channel. Up to now passengers and freight have had to ferry across the wide Zambesi, from railhead to railhead, on slow flat-bottomed river steamers. Now a motorist can entrain at Beira and get off next morning on the high plateau of Central Nyasaland...