Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crown has become the mysterious link-indeed, I may say, the magic link -which unites our loosely bound but strongly interwoven Commonwealth of nations, states and races...
...Britain. Shortly after Ghana's independence, Prime Minister Nkrumah substituted his own picture for the Queen's on postage stamps. He explained disarmingly: "Many of my people cannot read or write. When they buy stamps, they will see my picture -an African like themselves-and they will say, 'Aiee, look, here is my leader on the stamps. We are truly a free people!'" Other African leaders have given fair warning that, "if it is ever a choice between loyalty to Africa and loyalty to the Commonwealth, then Africa will...
...Imamate in an unheard-of way: enlisting popular support. He began unprecedented weekly talks to the worshipers in Taiz's ancient Muzaffariya mosque, paid a surprise visit to an army barracks and ordered a 25% pay raise and free medical care for all soldiers. But before Badr could say "Reform," disgruntled troops mutinied in Sana, declaring that the local governor had pocketed the payroll. In a surprising show of initiative, Badr rushed to Sana, fired the governor, the army commander and the police chief, and executed nine officers...
Through it all, Kassem continues to let himself be used as a propaganda front man at Communist rallies. Kassem seems to believe everything the Reds have to say about the iniquities of the West. Still, he quietly rejects their more obvious efforts to gain more control in Iraq. To groups of soldiers last week, the general repeated his credo: "I shall never belong to any party. I advise you not to allow any specific party to penetrate your ranks...
...nearly three months since he first crossed over into India after his escape from the Chinese invaders, he had kept silent-but it was not for the want of anything to say. Last week, in the Himalayan foothills, Tibet's fugitive young (24) Dalai Lama finally summoned his first press conference...