Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lusaka (pop. 45,500), capital of the copper-rich British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia, Tory Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton last week opened a spanking new high school, financed by the British government and built voluntarily by its Negro students. In Lusaka's Government House, whites and blacks mingled at a cocktail party, lining up to pump the visiting minister's hand and to air their grievances...
Such racial amiability, rare in the Rhodesias, was an outward and visible sign of the racial partnership that Britain hopes will one day characterize all British Africa. But it could not disguise the inward spiritual conflict that threatens Rhodesia with chronic black-white strife. Lyttelton had come to make his own reading of that conflict. Its heart is the growing fear of a white minority surrounded by black men who no longer are satisfied to be seen and not heard...
...federation, 500,000 Negro children attend school. This is more than double the total white population: 207,000. Rhodesia is dedicated to the motto of its founder, Cecil Rhodes: "Equal rights for every civilized man." But as more and more Negroes reach "civilized" standards (literacy and an income of at least $560 a year) and thereby qualify to vote, the whites are beginning to worry that eventually they will be swamped. "We are financing Negro education so that they can outvote us," complained one white settler...
Whites cheered Lyttelton's statement; yet most Negro leaders were smilingly unperturbed. Explained Harry Nkumbula, a classmate of the Gold Coast's Prime Minister Nkrumah and chief of Northern Rhodesia's African National Congress: "The so-called 'swamping' is inevitable . . . Time is on the Negroes' side...
...upon Catholics.'' Immaculate Conception is no parish church; it contains no baptismal font and performs no marriages. Instead, its 20-odd priests in residence handle a tough, three-part assignment: 1) administering (under Father Desmond Boyle) the 903 members of the Jesuit Order in England, Scotland, Wales, Rhodesia and British Guiana, 2) publishing (under Father Philip Caraman) a highbrow monthly called The Month and extending the ministry to the literate with lectures, newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, etc., 3) preaching and instructing converts...