Word: overseas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countless jungles, swamplands and deserts for the glory of the British Empire. But times have changed; colonies have become dominions, and colonial has become a dirty word. Last week the Colonial Office announced that as of Oct. 1 the Colonial Service will be called "Her Majesty's Oversea Civil Service." and promised to see to it that colonial officers keep their jobs, or get transfers to others in the Commonwealth "should the territory in whose public service they are employed attain self-government...
...sipping orange juice at Government House, Colonial Secretary Lyttelton came close to endorsing their view. "It is quite clear," he said, "that any modern form of franchise here would mean Europeans being swamped by African voters. That would mean a complete arrest of progress ... at worst a reversal. The oversea investor would be chary of risking his money. If we stand still, we get constitutional arthritis and risk losing the cooperation of the African - and his labor." His solution appeared to be a vague hope that "something constitutionally exotic" would turn up to enable the white minority to keep...