Word: african
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among the top-ranking Xegro villains of the Moslems and African Nationalist fringe groups: U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche, who won a Nobel Prize for making peace between Israel and the Arabs, hence is condemned as "the George Washington of Israel...
...appointed commission can frequently put the government itself in the dock and block its course. Last 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...
According to the 75,000-word Devlin report, Nyasaland's London-appointed governor, Sir Robert Armitage, was justified in declaring an emergency last March: "The government had to act or abdicate." But the report condemned the excesses of police and special constables for what followed: 51 Africans killed, 79 more injured, hundreds clapped into jail without trial. Furthermore, Devlin and his fellow investigators found no evidence of a murder plot against thousands of Europeans, as the Colonial Office had alleged, and pointed out that not one single European was killed. "When the time came to prepare the justification...
Reaction in the Central African Federation was swift and predictable. Africans celebrated by drinking maize beer around log fires, began agitation for Dr. Banda's release from prison. But the Federation government showed no disposition to free either Dr. Banda or some 500 "hard core" followers, and began taking precautions against another African upheaval in Nyasaland. Ammunition stockpiles were checked. Special constables were alerted in Blantyre-Limbe and other Nyasaland towns, and two mobile platoons of the Northern Rhodesian Police were moved to the Nyasaland border...
...July 26 Chet Huntley Reporting (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Operation Noah's Ark - the res cue of African game along the rising Zambezi River...