Word: state
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scandal over Kenya's Hola camps, where eleven African prisoners had been beaten to death by guards, had come the Devlin report (TIME, Aug. 3) calling the British protectorate of Nyasaland a "police state" and challenging the Colonial Office's need to avert an African "massacre" of white settlers that never took place. There were editorial outcries that Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd should resign; his office had been discredited by the very commission it had appointed, headed by a British high-court justice and including on its staff Lord Montgomery's wartime Chief of Intelligence...
Last week, under a constitutional provision empowering the President to assume control of any state government that is unable to function in accordance with the constitution, Prasad formally took over troubled Kerala until new elections could be held...
Violated Paradise. As India's only Communist-run state-and the world's only existing Communist government to have achieved power through legal elections-Kerala should have been a show place for Asia's Reds. Instead, it seemed to violate almost every promise that a workers' paradise is supposed to offer. Its local Action Committees not only disrupted law and order; they raised havoc with farm production. When Communist Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiripad tried to impose the Communist line upon Kerala's private schools, he united against himself two usually antagonistic groups, the wealthy, conservative...
...Communists lost no time in proving her right. Employing the same opening tactics that the opposition, used in Kerala, Communists in West Bengal issued a white paper against the Congress-run local government charging corruption and nepotism. Along with big Andhra Pradesh state, which also suffers from soaring food prices, West Bengal offers fertile soil for Communist propaganda. But by their own violence in Kerala, the Reds have lost much of the surprisingly strong sympathy they once commanded throughout India...
Fearing that the murder might break Lebanon's tenuous internal peace, the Cabinet met in emergency session, attended Moghabghab's state funeral en masse. The army was recalled from maneuvers, dispatched to the Chouf. Ex-President Chamoun berated the government for failing to protect his friend. Chieftain Jumblatt offered his tepid regrets ("It was fate's will...