Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast reaches of the Central African Federation, there is no man of consequence more accessible to his white compatriots than the Prime Minister. 30O-lb. Sir Roy Welensky, onetime locomotive engineer. But despite the fact that both Welensky and his four-year-old country-a union of Northern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland-officially subscribe to the doctrine of "racial partnership," Welensky has remained aloof from the Africans who make up the majority of its people. "Except for his servants," says one African leader, "Welensky has hardly spoken to an African since he ascended the political platform...
When Artist-Adventurer Frank McEwen took up his new job last year as director of the Rhodes National Gallery in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, he knew that he would face some problems as new as his gallery. One big one was that in primitive Southern Rhodesia (pop. 2,400,000) there was hardly any art. McEwen flew back to Europe to gather a loan exhibition, only to find that "most of the people I approached on the Continent had never heard of Rhodesia, and those that had saw their cherished treasures hanging in a clearing in the jungle or round...
From the U.S. he rounded up contributions of steel, from Australia steam pipes, from Canada floor tiles, from Southern Rhodesia copper for the spire, from New Zealand, Australia and Canada timber for the structure. In addition he raised $222,300 in donations which were added to $339,150 from Britain's War Damage Commission...
...black nothing immediately, but gave him a future hope. Now the South Africa where Rhodes made his fortune seeks to deny the blacks even a future claim to equality. To the north, in the lands named for Rhodes, South Africa's course is viewed with foreboding, but Rhodesia's own halfway house is an anxious place. The tendency among the frightened and the angry is to find ingenious definitions of "civilized" to exclude as many blacks as possible. Last month Southern Rhodesia's whites erupted in angry debate after a government commission proposed that anybody, white...
Hulking, handsome Garfield Todd, the ex-missionary from New Zealand who is the colony's Premier, was indignant. "We are in danger of becoming a race of fear-ridden neurotics," he scolded. "In Southern Rhodesia, the spirit of Rhodes will pass from the land unless racialism is banished." Summoning a caucus of his dominant United Rhodesia Party, he told the legislators: "The vote must be "given to those Africans who have earned the right of being called civilized and responsible persons." His suggestion: Give the vote to all Africans who have reached "Standard Eight" level of education-corresponding roughly...