Word: rifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancestor of Mamie Doud Eisenhower. The First Lady was forthwith welcomed into the D.A.R., and some 4,000 of the ladies trooped to the White House to welcome their newest member. It was the biggest White House reception since the inauguration, and marked the end of a 15-year rift between the White House and the D.A.R. The spat started when the late F.D.R. once welcomed the delegates as fellow "immigrants." The rift widened when Eleanor Roosevelt resigned in" 1939 after the D.A.R. refused to allow Marian Anderson to sing in their Constitution Hall...
...scarfaced Dedam Kimathi, 30, the ex-schoolteacher who styles himself "General Russia" (TIME, Feb. 23). Kimathi's tactics, the police believe, are copied from those of Malaya's Communist guerrillas. His forces are growing as tens of thousands of Kukes, evicted by white farmers in the Rift Valley Highlands, pour into the overcrowded reserves...
...drive through the thickly populated Kikuyu reserve, where shaven-headed Kikuyu women stagger under headloads that would shatter the spines of pack mules, and the closely clustered thatched mud huts look like shaggy beehives. Then you come to the edge of the escarpment, and the Rift Valley lies below you like a giant frying pan. Over to the right, the Aberdare range begins to loom, blue and smoky, and that's where the Mau Mau gangs lurk, and strike from. There are no east-west roads across the Aberdares. You have to go round them. And that...
From most farms around the Aberdares, and from the Rift Valley, Kikuyu families are being evicted by the thousands (25,000 people, men, women & children from the Rift Valley alone). These families had "squatted" on the white farms, giving labor in exchange for a little land and a little cash. Now they are being returned to the Kikuyu reserves-whether they had land in the reserves or not. Most had not; the Kenya government hopes their relatives will feed them...
...reserves; the white farmers and their wives besieged in their farmhouses with revolvers next to the dinner plates; the bearded commandos stumbling through forests after the elusive Mau Mau; the brittle Mayfair-in-suburbia life of spuriously gay Nairobi ; the purple-faced ex-colonels in the very, very particular Rift Valley Club- none of them seeming to know what to do. Not even the Mau Mau themselves seem to know what they really want-except to kill and disembowel as many whites, chiefs, head men, and non-Mau Mau Kikuyu as possible...