Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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As visiting Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made his way through the Union of South Africa, allowed to meet none of the blacks (who make up 67% of the population), he could sense the mood of the country from the headlines. The three-year-old "treason trial" of 30 political prisoners...
Slowly, sonorously, without a hint of smile, he set forth, first with courtesies, then with his message. "The wind of change is blowing through this continent," said Macmillan. "Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact, and we must come to terms with...
Next day, speaking to reporters in Cape Town, Harold Macmillan remarked: "Twenty years ago one spoke of guaranteeing rights of natives. Now it appears to be a question of guaranteeing the rights of Europeans." In London, Macmillan's Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod grappled with the problem as it affects...
Last week, as the returns came in, U Nu took a decisive lead over U Ba Swe, once his lieutenant, now his bitter rival, who lost his own constituency. But if Ne Win's army would now step down, it was by no means stepping out of the picture...
Many centuries before a king is born, his tree bursts through the earth as a green finger.