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Died. Lieut. General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, 83, one of Britain's best-known soldiers, the proud possessor of eleven battle wounds and many more decorations for valor, a lanky Oxonian who lost his left eye battling dervishes in Somaliland, and his left hand during a grenade charge at Ypres in 1915, and became Churchill's military envoy to Chiang Kai-shek in World War II; in Killinardrish, Ireland...
...Somalis began running into the stubborn objections of others shortly after Somalia (pop. 2,000,000) won independence in 1960 and began building a nation out of former Italian Somalia and British Somaliland. Emperor Haile Selassie coldly said no to Somalia's insistence on annexation of an Ethiopian border area containing 1,000,000 Somalis. France likewise refused to give up French Somaliland, where 600,000 Somalis live...
Spearing the Commissioner. No Somali saw it that way. Mobs surging through Mogadishu's heat (100° plus) had to be broken up by mounted police swinging long batons; before the disturbance was quelled, some 500 people were arrested. In Hargeisa, the onetime capital of British Somaliland, crowds stoned British homes and cars, attacked the British consulate. Presumably because of Britain's close ties to the U.S., newly arrived U.S. Ambassador Horace Torbert was stoned out of the town of Galcaio, his Land-Rover narrowly outdistancing a mob of 1,000 men, women and children. In Kenya itself...
Exports: Bananas, livestock products. Per capita income: $42. U.S. aid (1961): $4,200,000. Somalis of Arabian origin, hope to annex ethnically linked areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, French Somaliland into "Greater Somalia." Strong resistance to Communism...
With the end of France's colonial empire, the Foreign Legion seems obsolete. Some units may stay in Saharan outposts until 1965; others have already been sent off to French Somaliland and Madagascar...