Word: secessionism
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Room Sulkers. Looking his most bulldoggish, and giving a jaunty thumbs-up salute. Welensky stormed into London last week, prophesying ruin and anarchy if his warnings were ignored. Asked if he would use federal troops to prevent the secession of black-dominated Northern Rhodesia, Sir Roy replied, "the only time...
Road to Secession. At first Garrison was hated almost as much in the North by a people content to let the South keep its "peculiar institution." He was heckled when he spoke, and sometimes mobbed. But when the South, 25 years before the Civil War, began to make arbitrary arrests...
Everybody was rushing to leave Sir Roy Welensky's rickety Rhodesia federation. Black-ruled Nyasaland was already assured of Britain's permission to secede. Northern Rhodesia's African-dominated Assembly last week voted, 21 to 14, to demand immediate secession. Even whiteruled Southern Rhodesia was now calling...
Even Tshombe's erstwhile African allies were re-examining their relations with Leopoldville. First to bury the hatchet was President Fulbert Youlou of the Congo Republic, formerly the French Congo, whose capital city of Brazzaville lies across the river from Leopoldville. Youlou, a nonpracticing Roman Catholic priest who stubbornly...
Noronha was not the only one who was relieved that Tshombe was sticking to his promise to reintegrate Katanga with the rest of the Congo. At U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, Secretary-General U Thant could now turn to a problem that might turn out to be even tougher than ending...