Word: secessionism
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Katango's mines are run by a few giant, foreign-controlled companies, the largest of which is the Union Miniere de Haut Katanga. Tshombe had always worked closely with the Belgian financial interests. The financial interests, in turn, enthusiastically supported Katanga's secession. The secession could easily be seen as...
Although himself a historian Professor Silver fails to discuss adequately the historical forces which produced the closed society. He points out that a political convention called in 1851 to consider secession hooted at "the asserted right of secession" as "utterly unsanctioned by the Constitution." Yet in 1861, Mississippi was the...
The Queen was coming, and many French Canadians thought Elizabeth of England was unwelcome. Like an old sore suddenly scraped open, French nationalism is raging anew in Quebec after two centuries of British domination. An impatient generation of French Canadians demands more autonomy and a stronger voice in the country...
Bullets & Bird Watchers. The desperate military situation forced the U.S. into an ironic action quite in consonance with the topsy-turvy conditions of the Congo. Out of Washington to Brussels near week's end flew State Department Troubleshooter W. Averell Harriman. His mission: to persuade the Belgians to give...
Kites & Flags. When Pearson's government recently hinted that "the realities of the situation" might force Canada to depart from its policy of nonrecognition of Red China, Diefenbaker rose in Commons to demand "whether this was just a case of kite flying, or does it represent a change of...