Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FEVER," said a prominent West German last week, "is everywhere these days." The symptoms of Rapacki fever-named after Red Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki-are: 1) loud protestations that something must be done at once to "relieve tensions" in General Europe; 2) the conviction that the prime source of these tensions lies in the present divided condition of Germany. Victims of Rapacki fever assume that there is little hope either for the U.S. to "roll back" Soviet forces from Eastern Europe or for the Russians to drive U.S. forces out of Western Europe. So they proclaim...
...surface at least, the events of the week seemed to bear him out. In Cairo, President Nasser dramatically staged a "Quit Africa Day," aimed at what was described as the common enemy of both Arabs and blacks-the Western "imperialists," those "murderers" and "bloodsuckers." In Accra, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah began welcoming hundreds of delegates to a giant All Africa People's Conference, which was ostensibly organized as one more step toward the creation of "an ultimate commonwealth of free, independent United States of Africa...
Once before, Prime Minister Nkrumah had rushed to the center of the African stage by calling a conference of independent states to proclaim the new "African personality" (TIME, April 28). This time the delegates were not government officials to be whisked about in air-conditioned limousines, but representatives of trade unions, political parties, agricultural and youth groups. The whole idea was the brainchild of Nkrumah's "adviser on African affairs," George Padmore, a 55-year-old, Trinidad-born and U.S.-educated (Howard and Fisk) Negro who in his far travels has frequently fellow-traveled. "People of Africa, unite!" said...
...Shut the door, they're coming through the window; shut the window, they're coming through the door; oh, gee, now they're coming through the floor!" This children's jingle could be the theme song for Malaya's long struggle against Communist penetration. Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman, by means of amnesties, bribes and force of arms, has cleared the jungle of the guerrilla bands of Red Boss Chin Peng. By sternly refusing recognition to Red China, he has kept Malaya free of Mao Tse-tung's swarming diplomatic and cultural missions. Last...
...free his government of the strangling Red embrace. Prime Minister Rahman first declared a boycott of Chinese textiles, cement and chemicals, which have been flooding the Malayan market at below-cost prices. Last week he rammed through the Legislative Council a bill decreeing that any bank operating in Malaya that is owned by a foreign government or on behalf of that government or any of its agencies, must cease operation within three months. Of Kuala Lumpur's 15 banks-British as well as Malayan-the only one to answer to all the specifications is the Communist Bank of China...