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element is in vast preponderance.
The main problem to be soly- ed is how to meet the very rea- sonable desire of the Europeans to govern themselves while safe- guarding the no less reasonable
con. claims of the Africans to ditions in which they will be safeguarded against of ex- ploitation.
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The difficulties it has to over- come are not made less by the fact that Germany is watching all political changes in Africa lest they should affect its own de- mands for colonies there. The Royal Commission has, there fore, to take into account Ger- man as well as South African susceptibilities toward
any changes it may think intrinsical- ly desirable. Its objects are to broaden the basis of democracy over a wide area, while main- taining protection for the inter-
Hong Kong, Tuesday, January 18, 1938 ests of coloured peoples unable adequately to guard them for themselves.
A NEW NATION?
The British Government has Introducing The
decided to send a Royal Commis-
sion to look into the mutual Unknown
relations of Northern and South-
ern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. It isn't every day in the week Events in that remote quarter of that researchists on the trail of can have “missing elements” Africa have been moving in the their search rewarded. But with direction of the emergence of a the discovery in France of ele- new unit of the British Common-ment number 87, madavium, by wealth of Nations.
Horis Hulubei, the hunt for un- known elements narrows down the to ekaiodine, the only one still exist outside captivity,
They
Materials adequate for formation of such a unit
Trying to arrange such things in the three territories.
scale with have a joint area as big as that as helium, lithium, beryllium and
oxygen in the same of England, France and Ger-gold, lead and thorium, the fam- many combined. They are in-lous Russian chemist Mendeleeff found years ago that all fitted habited by 4,000,000 to 5,000, into families and neighbourhood 000 Africans whose relations sets based on their chemical with the 80,000 European settlers properties and atomic weights. require to be placed upon a more Numbering the elements from 1 to 92, what might be called their permanent basis. At present ocial register" was established. Southern Rhodesia is practically There were gaps, to be sure, but autonomous, its European settl-Mendeleeff asserted these would ers being in almost complete con- some day be filled by elements
then unknown. trol of the Government.
Chemists............__ puzzled over the Northern Rhodesia and Nyasa-idea. They considered such pre- skepticism. land, on the other hand, are dictions with some still ruled from Whitehall, but Then along came praseodymium, terbium, europium, ytterbium, the development of powerful et alia, to fit neatly in the direc copper-mining interests in the tory. Number 85 remains the one and the increasing demand sole atom socialite still to stage
its coming-out party. on the part of the European set- All ninety-two, including ekaio- which has not yet tlers for the African labour of dine,
up from the the other has rendered it neces-seen, have come
were. They are the elements
children The white community would Plato recognised centuries ago: gladly take over entire control, earth, fire, water, and air. But but the British Parliament quite lest the uninitiated take to hunt- rightly holds that the interests ing for the last of the missing of the Africans have first to be elements, be it known that num- ber 85, while hiding somewhere considered.
between radon and polonium, and On this account in 1931 White-belonging to the chlorine group, to hall refused proposals then made will no doubt be as difficult for amalgamating the two Rho- find as was number 43. Masur- of man- desias with one another. Now ium was blasted out this question is to be reco ider-ganese salts by Professor Nod- dack in Germany, but years went ed with special refere
by before identification Nyasaland and the norther tion of Northern - Rhodesia both of which areas the African positively.
sary to revise this arrangement, ranks, as the four
in were found to distinguish it
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