Native Trades in Southern Rhodesia

This list gives an interesting insight into the present stateof the Reserves in Southern Rhodesia. It was extracted fromthe Report of the Commissioner for Native Affairs in 1949, andno doubt all the Trades now show considerable increases.     

Rhodesia Looks Ahead

This article forms the major part of the new High Commissioner'sspeech in London at a meeting at the Royal Empire Society withthe Governor-Designate, Maj.-Gen. Sir John Kennedy, Late AssistantChief of the Imperial General Staff, in the chair. Mr. Goodenoughstarted with a historical résumé, which dividedRhodesian development into three periods; the pioneering period(1890-1923), the period of consolidation (1923-39), and theperiod of development in which we are now living.     

Northern Rhodesia and Federation

A Joint Metting was held on Thursday, May 29th, 1952, when theCommissioner for Northern Rhodesia spoke in his private capacity.The Chair was taken by Mr. R. S. Hudson, Head of the AfricanStudies Branch in the Colonial Office.     

East Africa and Rhodesia

Sir Stewart Symes, a vice-president of the Society, took thechair, for the reading of this paper. Earlier, Sir Stewart hadopened the conference with a word of welcome to the audience.     

Africans and Trade Unions in Northern Rhodesia

This article represents an address at a combined meeting withthe Royal Empire Society on the 31st July, with Colonel Ponsonbyin the Chair. Ex-pugilist, secretary of the Rhodesian RailwayWorkers' Union, and engine-driver, Mr. Welensky was loaned tothe Government of Northern Rhodesia as Director of Manpowerfor the last six years.     

South Africa Revisited

This article represents the second half of the well-known historian'saddress on the 30th March. Professor Macmillan visited Eastand South Africa in the summer of 1949, for the first time fornearly 20 years. In the interval he had visited and lived inWest Africa.     

Japanese Energy Security Revisited

Facing the surge of “resource nationalism” in energy-producing countries and the rapid growth of energy demand in China and India, the Japanese government has decided to play an active role in securing its energy import, which decision seems to have received the solid support of the people. Effective support by the government to business, needless to say, is welcomed. However, experience teaches that excessive intervention in energy procurement by non-business sectors would do no good and a lot of harm for Japan's stable energy supply in the future. Furthermore, foreseeing a future energy balance in Japan, the country should refrain from engaging in the so-called “scramble for energy” occurring globally. This paper sets out in detail the argument that it is in Japan's best interests to eliminate to as great an extent as possible any political dimension from an energy product such as oil in order to reduce its importance as a strategic commodity and strengthen its characteristics as a market commodity.     

Prospects and Progress in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland

Mr. Mason, who is Director of the Institute of Race Relations,London, gave the address that follows at a joint meeting ofthe Royal African Society and Royal Commonwealth Society onOctober 5, 1961. Sir Gilbert Rennie G.B.E, K.C.M.G., M.C., formerHigh Commissioner for the Federation in London, took the chair.     

The Problem of African Advancement on the Copperbelt of Northern Rhodesia

The following is an address which was given by Mr. R. L. Prainat a joint meeting of the Royal African Society with the RoyalEmpire Society. He is Chairman of the Rhodesian Selection Trust,which controls the mines at Luanshya and Mufulira.     

"Loans for Shares" Revisited

The "loans for shares" scheme of 1995-1996—in which a handful of well-connected businessmen bought stakes in major Russian companies—is widely considered a scandalous affair that had disastrous consequences for the Russian economy. Fifteen years later, the details of the program are reexamined in light of evidence available today. The conventional wisdom about "loans for shares" is analyzed in terms of how much of the market the stakes involved represented; the pricing in terms of international practice; the scheme's place in Russia's increasing wealth inequality; who the biggest beneficiaries were: and the firms' role in Russia's rapid growth after 1999.     

The German Model Revisited: From Schmidt to Schroder

This article examines the main changes in the German model from the government of the previous Social Democratic Chancellor Helmut Schmidt to that of Gerhard Schroder. It stresses the tensions and conflicts between its two faces - ordo-liberalism and 'managed' capitalism - and its potential to shift its centre of gravity without sacrificing its underlying nature. The key element of accommodation rests on a monetarist co-ordination of collective bargaining, an element that has been put in question by EMU. The Schroder government epitomizes an approach of modernisation by stealth that is well adapted to the contours of the German model. The conclusion points to the attempts to give a technocratic basis of legitimacy to the German model (most recently by the methodology of benchmarking) and seeks to offer a preliminary sketch of a theory of anchoring to explain how well consolidated is the German model. In addition to identifying slipping and weakening anchors, the conclusion emphasises the importance of two key anchors: the consistency of the German model with corporate strategy and with a chancellorship leadership adapted to the consensus principle which remains important in the operation of the political system. In the process the article offers reflections on the leadership role and style of Chancellor Schroder.     

1989 Revisited: Getting to the bottom of the GDR'S demise

Aufarbeitung von Geschichte und Folgen der SED‐Diktatur in Deutschland. Nine Volumes. By Enquete Kommission. Frankfurt/M: Suhrkamp, 1995.

Aufarbeitung und Versöhnung, ‘Leben in der DDR, Leben nach 1989’. Three Volumes. By landtag mecklenburg‐vorpommern. Schwerin: Stiller & Balewski, 1996.

The Politics of Economic Decline in East Germany, 1945–1989. By Jeffrey Kopstein. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Der Zusammenbruch der DDR am Beispiel der mecklenburgischen Stadt Parchim. By Fred Mrotzek. Hamburg: Kramer Verlag, 1996     

试论南部宅地法

美国南部宅地法颁布于1866年,实施范围是南部的公共土地.它是一系列政治、经济和军事斗争的结果.南部宅地法在实施过程中障碍重重,最终归于失败.其失败原因,不仅在于许多具体困难,而且根本的一条是,它缺乏坚实的经济基础在资本主义社会环境中,尤其是在资本主义上升时期,通过没收私人土地在南部实行宅地法是不现实的,仅在小范围的劣质土地上施行宅地法注定要失败.     

The drug trade in Southern Africa

Introductory Address by Dr. AM Omar MP, Minister of Justice, at the South African Institute of International Affairs’ Workshop on ‘The Drug Trade in Southern Africa’, 5 June 1997, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.