Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said the Hong Kong Standard: "This statement, if it genuinely reflects the viewpoint of the Liu-Peng faction, offers an explanation for their drastic turn against Mao. If they believe that the pursuit of Mao's policies would bring about the collapse of Communist rule in China, the need for self-preservation left them no alternative but to rise up against Mao and either force him to renounce his policy or else wrest control of the party from...
...President's political philosophy excluded threats and clubs, it did not rule out "degrees of enthusiasm that I have for the re-election or election of certain people, even though they bear the name Republican ... so I have, I think, my own ways of expressing that degree of enthusiasm...
Ever since their turbaned and straw-hatted chieftains met with Britain's Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd in London last May, few politically conscious Nigerians had doubted that home rule was really on the way. The only question was when. Last week in the dusty streets and mangrove-shaded gardens of the ramshackle, tin-roofed capital of Lagos, Nigerians read the answer in a special 32-page edition of the Dally Times. The answer, for half of Africa's most populous (33 million) nation...
From London had come an Order in Council from Queen Elizabeth granting immediate home rule for Eastern and Western Nigeria. The cabled order caught Nigeria's regional premiers by complete surprise. Western Premier Chief Obafemi Awolowo was holidaying in Britain. Eastern Premier Nnamdi Azikiwe better known as "Zik" to his enthusiastic followers, was something less than exuberant. ''Falls so far short of the yearnings," complained his newspaper, "that it does not deserve to be noised abroad. The drums ought to be silent. The cymbals should be hidden away...
Actually, Zik's pique was probably directed less at the order providing home rule for only half of Nigeria than at the fact that if the rest of Nigeria gets home rule by 1960, he will probably not become independent Nigeria's first Prime Minister. Most likely to be chosen by the federal House of Representatives when it convenes next month is a leader from the more populous but less advanced Northern Region, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, currently federal Minister of Transport. Nigeria's north is Moslem, and so conservatively Moslem that its devout regard Egyptians, Turks...