Word: stating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week a four-man British commission, headed by respected High Court Justice Sir Patrick Devlin, brought in a report on its six-week investigation of the nationalist uprisings last March in Nyasaland, the African territory run by London's Colonial Office. The report flatly called Nyasaland a "police state," and its findings may jeopardize the merger of black Nyasaland with the black and white Rhodesias into a Central African Federation, which is plumping for self-government in 1960. The findings were one more direct slap at Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's harried Colonial Office...
...advocated disobedience, but he was blamed for disregarding "the political immaturity of his followers," for "disobedience was the inevitable consequence of what he was saying and doing," and "there is no room for a Hyde Park in Nyasaland." Concluded the report: "Nyasaland is-no doubt only temporarily-a police state where it is not safe for anyone to express approval of the policies of the Congress Party, to which, before March 3, 1959, the vast majority of politically minded Africans belonged, and where it is unwise to express any but the most restrained criticism of government policy...
...inner compound, surrounded by 6-ft.-high concrete walls, will have 20 twelve-room fieldstone villas, a state-run shopping center, power plant, and a house of culture that features guest rooms, a theater and a ballroom, reported West Berlin's B.Z. last week. The shopping center is being stocked with Westphalian ham, Danish chickens, French mushrooms and Crimean champagne, all at PX prices. Other amenities: a safe in each villa for classified documents, a radiation-proof bomb shelter. Outside the inner compound are apartment quarters for 150 servants, and barracks for 160 armed guards, said B.Z. The East...
Finance Minister Mohammed Hadid also studied under and was deeply influenced by that heady English socialist, Laski. Hadid insists that he is "not a dogmatic socialist now," but says: "We aim to pursue the progressive policy of the welfare state ... to level out incomes by means of taxation and social services...
...London Sir Winston Churchill, 84, popped up at the christening of his tenth grandchild, cherubic little Rupert Christopher Soames, two months, son of Britain's Secretary of State for War Christopher Soames and Churchill's daughter Mary. "He's beautiful," murmured Sir Winston. Observed proud Papa Soames: "The new baby looks awfully like Sir Winston-but then, so do most babies...