Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Overseas royalty began trickling in. Among the first: Paramount Chief Mwanawina II of Barotseland, representing all tribal chiefs of Northern Rhodesia. Outfitted with a replica of the claw-hammered coat and gold-striped trousers worn by his father for the coronation of Edward VII, the chief made the first 300 miles of the trip to London by barge, the rest by Constellation. Also arriving: Queen Salote Tupou of the Pacific Island protectorate of Tonga, one of the three reigning queens in the world (the others: Britain's Elizabeth, the Netherlands' Juliana), and definitely the largest...
...central Africa, squeezed between the Belgian Congo and Portuguese Mozambique, is a lung-shaped piece of land which last week was shouting lustily for air. The land has no composite name, but, come January 1954, it may well be Rhodesia, the eighth self-governing dominion of the British Commonwealth...
...area nearly twice the size of Texas, now divided into one crown colony (Southern Rhodesia) and two protectorates (Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland). The vast majority of its 6,000,000 inhabitants (so far as their wishes are known) do not want to sever their relationship with the British Colonial Office in London. Reason: they are black. In central Africa today, the black man feels he has more to lose in local white governments (e.g., Malan's Union of South Africa) than by rule from a benevolent Britain...
...last week, when the people of the crown colony of Southern Rhodesia went to the polls to decide on federation, the blacks had little or nothing to say about it. The voting qualification was the possession of assets worth $1,400 or an income of not less than $700 a year; only 429 Negroes qualified. Among 40,000 whites who did, 25,500 favored federation. Mau Mauism to the north and Malanism to the south-unhappy extremes
...itinerary: Japan, Formosa, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Siam, India (where he spent two weeks at the Lucknow meetings of he World Council of Churches), Egypt, then down the east coast of Africa (Uganda, Kenya and Rhodesia) to Johannesburg and up the west coast (the Belgian and French Congos, the Cameroons, Nigeria, the Gold Coast...