[Mount Athos]

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Were you impressed by the famous "Nevada Palladium Times" naming the "Republic of Kenya" in November 1963, even before kenya gained independence -- a time when they were a british crown colony and the Queen of England was their head of state?

The Kenyan government proclaimed itself to the world as a new Republic in December 1964, that it wasn't one before. But that means nothing against a Nevada Palladium Times article. The fact that the major papers of the day didn't refer to kenya this way before dec 1964 means nothing too eh.

[Plutarch]

Were you impressed by the famous "Nevada Palladium Times" naming the "Republic of Kenya" in November 1963, even before kenya gained independence -- a time when they were a british crown colony and the Queen of England was their head of state?

Well, no. I expect an American local paper to be less punctilious about the name of a country than that country's official legal documents.

[Lexinom]

Like you, I'm skeptical about the document, but for different reasons. Not sold on the Republic of Kenya issue being a dealbreaker.

You know what would solve this with a high degree of certainty is a small pool of comparison documents from the same period. It would give a very high-confidence probability indicator, and would not require a large sample pool to do so. WND claims it has such comparisons. Did they photograph/scan them? Where are they? Sans that, we need someone else to share a similar document from the same year. There are doubtless tens of thousands of such documents from 1964 floating around. All we need are a couple, copies even.

[Aquabird]

Mount Athos said:

“Were you impressed by the famous “Nevada Palladium Times” naming the “Republic of Kenya” in November 1963, even before kenya gained independence — a time when they were a british crown colony and the Queen of England was their head of state?

“The Kenyan government proclaimed itself to the world as a new Republic in December 1964, that it wasn’t one before. But that means nothing against a Nevada Palladium Times article. The fact that the major papers of the day didn’t refer to kenya this way before dec 1964 means nothing too eh.”

I say:

Now you sound like a Viral Messenger. You got documented proof that in 1963, people referred to Kenya as ‘Republic of Kenya’. And you can’t accept documented proof.

The official ‘proclamation’ of the Kenyan government is irrelevant if they were already saying they were ‘Republic of Kenya’ and signing their documents that way.

We say that America’s birthday is on 1776, not on the ratification of the Constitution of the ‘American Republic’.

Poor Mount Athos and his house of cards falling down!