Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strengths of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence that a government-appointed commission can frequently put the government itself in the dock and block its course. Last week a four-man British commission, headed by respected High Court Justice Sir Patrick Devlin, brought in a report on its six-week investigation of the nationalist uprisings last March in Nyasaland, the African territory run by London's Colonial Office. The report flatly called Nyasaland a "police state," and its findings may jeopardize the merger of black Nyasaland with the black and white Rhodesias into a Central African Federation, which is plumping for self...
According to the 75,000-word Devlin report, Nyasaland's London-appointed governor, Sir Robert Armitage, was justified in declaring an emergency last March: "The government had to act or abdicate." But the report condemned the excesses of police and special constables for what followed: 51 Africans killed, 79 more injured, hundreds clapped into jail without trial. Furthermore, Devlin and his fellow investigators found no evidence of a murder plot against thousands of Europeans, as the Colonial Office had alleged, and pointed out that not one single European was killed. "When the time came to prepare the justification...
...leader of the Congress Party. Dr. Banda had not advocated disobedience, but he was blamed for disregarding "the political immaturity of his followers," for "disobedience was the inevitable consequence of what he was saying and doing," and "there is no room for a Hyde Park in Nyasaland." Concluded the report: "Nyasaland is-no doubt only temporarily-a police state where it is not safe for anyone to express approval of the policies of the Congress Party, to which, before March 3, 1959, the vast majority of politically minded Africans belonged, and where it is unwise to express...
...have fled from-rural poverty to the city slums may now begin to drift back to the farm. The plan will cost $240 million the first year, $7 billion in all. Only the Communists denounced the plan as too moderate and refused to sign the commission's report. The other parties agreed with Caracas Archbishop Rafael Arias Blanco, who declared that passage of the bill "will be for me a feast day of great jubilation...
Ospreys normally return to the same mating place year after year. Would these return? As bird lovers waited, the first report came on April 18: the male was back; three days later, the female followed. The ornithologists were ready. In a campaign that rivals the efforts to protect North America's whooping crane, Waterston and his aides strung barbed wire around the base of the tree, planted the vicinity with booby traps, built an observation post with a covered approach. Relays of guards kept 24-hour watch, helped at night by a parabolic microphone so sensitive that they could...