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Song of Terror. British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton, who toured Kenya last month, assured the House of Commons that "we will free Kenya from fear." Yet fear still reigns, and what was once pooh-poohed as a "native" bushfire might easily engulf the richest colony in Britain's East African empire in a racial holocaust. Last week, in the exclusive "White Highlands," settlers went in fear of unseen Mau Mau snipers. One family found that its servants had fled to join the Mau Mau, leaving the beheaded trunks of its loyal "boys" sprawled across the doorstep. At Thomson...
...from his villa on The Riviera for a visit to Paris, the Ago Khan said that he was still hard at work on his forthcoming memoirs, "which will sweep away all these legends about me." Some of the sweepings: "The richest man in the world is the Nizam of Hyderabad, not me. He is also the most avid miser. He has a swimming pool full of diamonds . . . The story that I bottle my bathtub water and sell it to the faithful is utter rubbish . . . Horses are a passion with me. I have just had the best racing season...
...Williston Basin's reserves will not be known until thousands of square miles, as yet untouched, are drilled. Estimates of oil in the basin run from 500 million bbls.-and up-compared to reserves of more than 2 billion in the great East Texas field, the richest ever found...
Jamaica, much the largest and richest of the present federating group, will provide more than half the federation's 2,400,000 population. But if all the colonies unite, total population will be about 4,500,000 (double Puerto Rico's). The larger mainland colonies, if they decide to join, have ample room for the surplus population of such overcrowded islands as Barbados (1,246 inhabitants...
...years the Museum of Comparative Zoology may be one of the richest departments in the University, James R. Reynolds '23, Assistant to the President, indicated yesterday...