The Colonial Office probably feels that its activity in preparing colonies for independence makes any immediate merger almost impossible.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

At the beginning of this week the Colonial Office was formally responsible for territories with a combined population of about 80 million.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

This has not escaped attention in the Colonial Office itself, but the difficulties are considerable, and could too easily prevent anything being done.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

There is not much time to take decisions about the future of the Colonial Office before it becomes a mere shell of its present active self.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

Before then, the future of Cyprus, as one of the Mediterranean fortress-colonies will, it must be assumed, be settled and what British control is exercised is more likely to be done through the CRO or Foreign Office than the Colonial Office.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

We met in his office in the Secretariat building that was the seat of British colonial power here until 1947.

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There is the Post Office, a yellow-washed beauty surrounded by the finest collection of colonial-era buildings in Phnom Penh.

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The walnut top of his colonial style desk was marred by water stains from a second-story flood the office suffered months earlier.

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Because of the globality and interconnectedness of indigenous, colonial and capitalist male privileging ideologies, an African woman president must be prepared not to be voted back into office but focus on standing for what is right.

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