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...hoped that the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia could unite with the protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland to form a federation whose eventual goal would be an independent dominion within the Commonwealth. Nyasaland, with its over 99 per cent black population, feared domination by the strong white settler population of Southern Rhodesia; but it was hoped that the Federation would help both areas economically and would constitute a buffer betwen the reactionary white government of South Africa and the pure black territories to the North...
...Sacramento, Calif. Every week, while the train fights thirst, Indians and renegade whites, Bond has had to take time out to handle the wild and woolly characters with which his scriptwriters people the West. In A Man Called Horse, beefy Ralph ("Picnic") Meeker turned up as an ignorant settler who had been handed over as a slave to a matriarchal Indian squaw. In The Annie MacGregor Story, a migrating Scottish clan drove off marauding Indians with their skirling pipes. In The Liam Fitzmorgan Story, a group of Celtic types learned about the vengeance of the Irish underground. By the time...
Portugal's Dictator Oliveira Salazar tolerates the presence of a royal pretender to the Portuguese throne: Dom Duarte Nuno, 50, a recent settler in Lisbon, and the twig upon a branch of Portugal's royal family tree. Last week Dom Duarte got some royal competition. Portugal's anti-Nuno monarchist faction presented a petition in Rome to well-preserved Princess Maria Pia of Saxe-Coburg Braganga. 50, an illegitimate child of Portugal's assassinated (in 1908) King Carlos I, to start pretending. A pro-Maria spokesman gave short shrift to Dom Duarte: "That impostor must never...
...inadvertently becomes a member of a gang of badmen called the Rough String. Up to the last line, "I went home to Pennsylvania and took up plowing," she sustains perfectly the self-derisory note of the campfire raconteur. Her shorter stories are her best, and in tales of Indian, settler, miner and badman, she subtly suggests the tragedy of collision between aborigine and invader, and sometimes the more complicated tragedy of their collusion. Such a story is Lost Sister, a tale of a captured white child who became a squaw and sacrificed her life to save her half-Indian...
...suppose the U.S. or U.N. could send in armies." He stopped and chuckled. Grinning slyly, dimpling his jowls like an old grey cherub, he said: "There is an Israeli story that people used to tell back in the early days when food was short. The optimist was the hungry settler who said: 'We don't have enough food, what we should do is send a few planes to bomb Washington. Then the U.S. would invade and occupy us and everything would be all right because they will have to feed us.' The pessimist was the pioneer...