Word: rhodesia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...installed not in Pakistan but in Africa, where his Ismaili followers once weighed his portly grandfather in diamonds. The shop signs of Dar es Salaam in Tanganyika are almost all Indian-V. B. Patel, the timber merchant; H. J. Peerani, the baker; Mohanlal, the tailor. In Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Indians are called Banyans, and elsewhere whatever the African wants to buy-a bolt of cotton, a kerosene lamp, a bicycle-it is almost invariably an Indian dukah wallah in a filthy, tin-roofed shop that sells to him. In Kenya, Asians pay one-third of the colony...
...bypass preliminary trainers and begin fledgling flyers in North American AT-6s (advanced trainers). When other countries followed the U.S., a shortage developed, since North American had stopped making the planes. Ayer scoured the world for the ATs (he found 15 on an abandoned British airstrip in Southern Rhodesia), sold 252. plus another 380 small planes. Last year he broke into the big-plane market with the purchase of 24 Convair 2405 from American Airlines...
...then decided to devote his life to works as a layman. His works came to include rehabilitating prisoners in England, youth counseling in postwar Berlin, three years as a farm laborer and market gardener. Ten years ago, he was called to St. Faith's Anglican mission in South Rhodesia. His job: to help revive St. Faith's 10,000 acres of impoverished soil, bring African workers back from the towns to live on the land...
Clutton-Brock earned the Negroes' respect and friendship when in 1957 he helped organize the Southern Rhodesia branch of the African National Congress. When congress organizers were branded "agitators," he said: "It is the duty of every citizen and Christian to be an agitator for justice, righteousness and truth...
Last January Clutton-Brock left St. Faith's, moved on to work on an agricultural project in barren, lion-haunted Bechuanaland. But as soon as he and his wife returned to Southern Rhodesia in February for a vacation, he was arrested and held without trial under emergency laws prompted by the Nyasaland riots (TIME, March 9 et seq.). During his imprisonment, the Southern Rhodesian government offered freedom and free passage back to England if he would give up his Southern Rhodesian citizenship, but he refused...