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...Suez, the fabric of empire is visibly disintegrating. In the north, the vast Sudan fortnight ago turned its back on Britain (TIME, Dec. 7). In the south, Boer South Africa talks of becoming a republic, and of leaving the Commonwealth. In between (see map), there is war in Kenya, unrest in Nyasaland, and in the Rhodesias a harassed attempt to build up a Central African Federation...
Three days later, at his regular press conference, President Eisenhower said that the U.S. would be most cautious about doing anything that would create unrest and disaster, or failure or hysteria in a neighboring nation, say, in India. The Administration's effort would be to produce a friendship with the entire subcontinent, not just with one group...
With no rooms open, commuters find they are isolated from the centralized social life of the college. Last spring their unrest broke out in demands for a special commuter's center equipped with beds and easy chairs. The center was bought but there are no chairs or beds as yet. It stands today as an empty reminder of Brown's struggle to bind the college into a social and academic unit, a struggle which is so far fairly successful...
...metals and farmlands, and able to protect itself from the black nationalism of the Gold Coast and the white nationalism of South Africa. Last week, barely half a year since the House of Commons gave the ambitious project its blessing, the Central African Federation was jarred by racial unrest among black man, Boer and Briton. 69,000 Boers. Sir Godfrey Huggins, 70, the wiry little surgeon who first conceived the notion of lumping the Rhodesias and Nyasaland into one big Central Africa (TIME. Sept. 21), was beset on both sides by black and white extremes. In next month...
...only colony on the South American continent, held its first popular elections under a newly granted constitution-and returned the first openly pro-Communist government ever to hold office in the British Empire. Last week, after six months of mounting frustration over the colony's Red-created unrest and subversive intrigues, Britain suspended the constitution and sent in troops to guarantee public safety. Said Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton: "Her Majesty's government is not willing to allow a Communist state to be organized within the British Commonwealth...