Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Very probably, the reason for these and other violations of the rights of men and of nations is a compound of suspicions and fear. That explains. It cannot excuse. In justice to others, and to ourselves, we can never accept these wrongs as a part of the peace that we desire and seek...
...Berbers piled their guns on the ground in front of the French. "You command us," they wailed. "We are miserable wretches." By the time General André Franchi arrived to accept their submission. 10,000 tribesmen and 5,000 Arab townsfolk were waiting to submit...
Faure persuaded the Moroccans to accept the outlines of Grandval's plan. A bigger problem was to win the support of the French diehards-in Morocco and in France...
...captured, I will continue to resist by all means available. I will make every effort to escape and aid others to escape. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy...
...bundled Ben Youssef aboard a DC-3 and exiled him, ostensibly to "save" him from his own people, actually because he supported their demand for more political freedom. So flimsy a pretext was an insult to North Africa's faithful. Morocco's urgent nationalists flatly refused to accept the weak and wizened old man whom Paris foisted on them in Ben Youssef's place. Ben Youssef, never very popular as Sultan, became in exile a martyr...