Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Malayans, too, did things in style, though the curiously unenthusiastic calm with which they received their independence was attributed by British residents to the fact that it was "handed to them on a platter." Gracefully, round-faced, 54-year-old Prime Minister Tengku (Prince) Abdul Rahman* paid tribute to Britain. "Malaya," said he, "is blessed with a good administration forged and tempered to perfection by successive British administrators. Let this legacy not suffer." He himself was exhilarated, if his people did not outwardly seem so. "I am," he confessed, "as enthusiastic and excited as a child being given...
Unlike most children, Prime Minister Abdul Rahman was keenly aware that his new toy was breakable. An admirer of Nehru, the Tengku has already served notice that Malaya will not join SEATO. "For the protection of this country," said he last week, "I consider it sufficient that we enter into defense agreements with Britain." But for all his lack of enthusiasm for military pacts, Abdul Rahman is determined to clean up the Communist revolt that has plagued Malaya for the last nine years, at a cost to Britain and Malaya of $1,680,000,000 and nearly 4,500 lives...
When Nkrumah returned last month from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in London, he said: "Henceforth we shall see who is ruling this country." Two weeks later, his government ordered the deportation of three men who displeased Nkrumah. One was Nkrumah's erstwhile idolatrous biographer, Journalist Bankole Timothy, who had been taking jabs at the Premier in Accra's British-owned Daily Graphic. Since Timothy was born in Sierra Leone, it was possible to expel him. The Minister of Information refused to specify the charges against the other two, Ashanti leaders of the Moslem Association Party, "since...
Supply & Demand. Economists had a ready explanation for the demand for the Canadian dollar: heavy foreign investments in Canadian securities. But Canada's tight-money policies also figured in the climb. Last week the Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Montreal increased their prime rate-the interest rate on high-grade business loans-to 5¾% (v. 4½% in New York). The rise will drive more Canadian borrowers to the New York money markets for funds, and with their borrowed U.S. dollars, they will help bid up the price of Canadian dollars...
From S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, Ceylon's Prime Minister, came the merest suggestion of a deadpan snicker. Newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon Maxwell H. Gluck-the businessman who could not put his tongue to Bandaranaike's name nor pronounce Jawaharlal Nehru's when a Senate committee ambushed him (TIME, Aug. 12)-should not fret about his pronunciation difficulties, said the Prime Minister. Observed the Oxford-educated Bandaranaike dryly: "I can't pronounce his name either. I don't know whether it should be pronounced 'Click' or 'Gluck' [correct: Gluck]. I shouldn...