Word: overlordship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British] suckers of blood and squeezers of nationals' lands are determined to impose their policy of overlordship on East, South and Central Africa. The British bwana wants all people who are not white to be slaves." ¶"We would be glad to hear Mr. Eisenhower suggest to the Soviet Union that it join hands with the Americans to fight imperialism. Mr. Eisenhower could not do so because America also is now a state which wishes to have colonies, to oppress and exploit...
...principal changes: 1) three new ministers (for food, education and agriculture) were promoted to Cabinet rank, including Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh, first woman ever admitted to a Conservative Cabinet; 2) the "overlordship" system-a Churchill invention under which a Cabinet officer supervises a cluster of related departments, but has no direct control over any of them-was dropped as a failure, and so were two overlords, Lord Leathers and Sir Arthur Salter; 3) a saving of $26,600 a year in salaries was effected, to the delight of economy-minded Sir Winston...
...revolutionary Communism came to be associated with-of all things-order and the promise of peace. This was the process, sped by the age-old agonies of Asia's crowded, impoverished lands, that brought a determined, rebellious Hunanese peasant and an alien ideology of the West to the overlordship of China's millions...