Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came the portrait of Queen Elizabeth. Next day, shirtsleeved and Next day, shirtsleeved and tieless, Lee Kuan Yew, chief of the left-of-center People's Action Party that had just captured 43 of 51 Assembly seats, took the oath of allegiance as the Queen's first Prime Minister of the autonomous State of Singapore...
...control of Britain's great Far East naval base. British officials on the scene, less alarmed, have convinced themselves that Lee's bark is worse than his bite. They agree that his bark is pretty ferocious, but they point to some paradoxes in his makeup. At 36, Prime Minister Lee is a Cambridge-trained barrister steeped in British ways of thought-as well as a mob orator who shouts to his barefoot followers: "It's us against the white men." A Singapore-born Chinese like his wealthy father and grandfather before him, he rabble-rouses more fluently...
...Communist "unless and until Malaya goes Communist." The British hope that the fervent anti-Communism of Malaya's ruling conservatives, and Lee's own comprehension of the island's economic, dependence on foreign trade and capital, will hold him on a moderate course. As he congratulated Prime Minister Lee last week, retiring British Governor Sir William Goode (who will stay on as High Commissioner until a native of Singapore can be named to the job) handed him a letter from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan offering Britain's cooperation and help in ruling the island city that...
...encouraged his smuggling, Kassim told how once the late Governor General Ghulam Mohammed had ordered him to treat "as his own brothers" three Arabs whom he asked Kassim to assist in smuggling into Karachi two shipments of gold. Kassim also incriminated associates of former President Iskander Mirza and ex-Prime Ministers Noon and Suhrawardy, as well as 18 top Karachi police and customs officials. No matter which politicians were in power, he said, their henchmen demanded payoffs, and when he tried to quit the rackets they would not let him. "I did not give up smuggling," he pleaded, "because...
...Prime Minister John Diefenbaker last week chose a longtime political intimate to take Canada's foreign affairs portfolio. The new Minister is Howard Charles Green, a Conservative Member of Parliament since 1935 and-since the 1957 Tory victory-leader of the House, Minister of Public Works, and deputy Prime Minister. Three times he served as Diefenbaker's alter ego when the P.M. was abroad...