Word: pro-british
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...home, there were English governesses and gardens, dogs and Dresden, pony carts, and even porridge in the morning. Vijaya Lakshmi, who was born in August 1900, could write English before she was five, but she could not speak her own Hindi until she was nine. Her father, a wealthy, pro-British lawyer, would allow Indian food to be served only once a week, and was pleased when his daughter got an English nickname, "Nan." Accustomed to the comfortable acceptance of imperial British rule, she showed little of her political ire in those youthful days. "A stylish affair," she wrote after...
...emergency session last week. Topic: Iran. The word afterward was that the British were coming around to Washington's view that the fall of weepy Premier Mohammed Mossadegh would probably bring the Communist Tudeh party into power. They no longer saw any real alternative, now that the last pro-British Premier (Ahmed Qavam) had been shoved aside, the young Shah rendered helpless, and the Iranian army brought under Mossadegh's control. But they still shrank from going to Mossadegh's aid and on his terms: helping the man who expropriated Anglo-Iranian's wealth would...
Malan's headlong rush towards a narrow Afrikaner state-anti-British and anti-black-was too much for one of South Africa's oldest living heroes: 80-year-old General Sarel Francois Alberts. In the Boer War, Alberts fought alongside the late great Field Marshal Smuts against the hated British; after Smuts made peace (in 1902), they fought one another. Alberts, in 1914, rebelled against South Africa's pro-British government; he was defeated and captured by one of Smuts's toughest lieutenants: Dolf de la Rey. Since then, captor and captive have gone their separate...
...favor of his Lebanese neighbor. Iraq wanted to condemn him as a dictator at the next meeting of the Arab League, Shishekly wanted the charge defeated. King Talal of Jordan had already offered Shishekly his support. Egypt and Saudi-Arabia would automatically oppose anything suggested by Iraq's pro-British Premier Nuri es-Said. Lebanon soon made it clear that it would do likewise. Thus assured, Shishekly rode off to Damascus, and went back to slapping one decree after another on his country...
...Cairo, the Egyptian government ordered the expulsion of the Associated Press Bureau Chief Fred Zusy for pro-British bias, "bad faith" and "harming the interests of Egypt" in his reporting. Milwaukee-born Zusy, 37, denied the charges. The news sent Egypt's ambassador in Washington, Kamil Abdul Rahim, into a flap. When he warned Cairo of the bad effect Zusy's expulsion would have on U.S. public opinion, Cairo reversed its decision...