Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that came the British plan to merge Nyasaland with its neighbors, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, to form one big Central African Federation (TIME, Feb. 9). Africans opposed it, preferring distant Colonial Office rule to rule by Southern Rhodesia's white colonials, and fearing that federation would enable the whites to grab more land. A few "safeguards" for the Negroes were written into the Federation constitution, but the nationalist-minded Nyasaland African Congress was not satisfied...
Last week the U.S. sent a Minister Plenipotentiary to the exhibition: William H. Ball, of the fruit-jar and rubber-products family of Muncie, Ind. In his honor, protocol demanded that The Star-Spangled Banner be played. Unable to find a score in all Rhodesia, the sponsors finally discovered a fellow who makes a hobby of collecting records of national anthems. From an old recording of his, copyists worked out an arrangement in time for a gala performance of Aïda. The colonials also raised the Stars & Stripes over the exhibition grounds. But their enthusiasm soon faded a little...
Meanwhile, to gain time to test the course of true love and to test the public's response, Group Captain Townsend was posted off to an embassy sinecure in Brussels. On tour in Southern Rhodesia with her mother, Princess Margaret complained of a cold, was ordered to bed by her doctor-a heart specialist...
With Princess Margaret off to Southern Rhodesia for the Cecil Rhodes centenary celebration, British tongues were wagging over the announcement that R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, an equerry to Queen Elizabeth and one of Margaret's favorite escorts, had been transferred from the royal household to the post of air attaché in Brussels. The move came soon after U.S. press reports that Margaret "is in love" with the handsome captain. Had the royal family acted to head off a match with a man who is not only a commoner but 38, divorced and the father of two children...
Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret flew to Southern Rhodesia to open a special Rhodes exhibit. Meanwhile, 5,400 miles away, 400 ex-Rhodes scholars gathered at Oxford for a celebration of their own. Half came from the U.S., the rest from Australia, Bermuda, Canada, India, Malta, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa...