Word: tanganyika
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...list him as Frederic Grosvenor Carnochan. Always well off, he could afford to become an amateur ethnologist. During the past decade he concentrated on the Wanyamwesi, a long-nosed, curly-haired tribe of 4,000,000 members who inhabit 30,000 sq. mi. south of Lake Victoria (in Tanganyika Territory, which Premier Hertzog of the Union of South Africa fortnight ago suggested Great Britain should return to Germany's control...
...recommend that the independent Republic of Liberia be seized by force if necessary and handed over to Germany as a League of Nations mandate. Further, according to Premier Hertzog, the Union of South Africa would hand her mandate of Southwest Africa back to Germany also and would recommend that Tanganyika (formerly German East Africa) be given back to Germany as well...
Southwest Africa. London took the Liberia idea calmly. But not Premier Hertzog's suggestion of giving up Southwest Africa and Tanganyika. Recently back from his visit to Adolf Hitler, Foreign Minister Sir John Simon rose in the House of Commons last week, said...
Britain also realized last week that she may not be able to enforce anti-Japanese quotas for some of her East African possessions because of the Congo Basin treaties which assure commercial equality in the Congo Basin to the signatory powers. Tanganyika Territory in East Africa, excluded because it is a British mandate, was glad. Reporters found an overworked doctor in Tanganyika who announced...
...months' visit in 1926, is more than academic. After her return from Africa to England she made a point of meeting every African visitor she could, says: "At one time our house seemed to be an enquiry bureau to which students from the Gold Coast, Nigeria or Tanganyika came uninvited for help with examination papers in constitutional law. or advice as to where to buy winter woollens." Daughter of a Yorkshire farmer, Authoress Holtby was old enough to serve as a "Waac" (Woman's Army Auxiliary Corps) during the War; afterwards went to Oxford, where she took...