Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That mild-mannered ex-school master, Premier Guy Mollet, pulled out his copybook last week and took a timely lesson from Marshal Foch at the 1918 Battle of the Marne. Deserted by his coalition partner, Mendes-France, under withering bombardment from all sides for his handling of the North African crisis, Socialist Mollet marched out to demand a vote of confidence from the Assembly...
During World War 11 a girl came to a Flying Angel in an African port, said that she had married a British radio officer, had not heard from him and wanted a divorce. The Angel cabled the mission in Glasgow, the husband's home port, which in turn located the ship in Asia, where a third Angel sat down with the husband, helped him draft appropriate letters to his wife, which (with the African Angel's help) assured a happy ending...
From the minute he walked down the plane steps, the Gold Coast gleamed with 22-carat jive. On hand were 15 "highlife" bands (specialists in West Coast African jazz, with a, bouncing calypso beat), blatting out a special called All for You, Louis, All for You. No man to dodge a jam session, Louis ducked back into the plane and emerged with his gold-plated trumpet, his lip salve and his sidemen...
There, in the heart of the Kikuyu country, is the African Inland Mission, nucleus of a vast parish supervised by U.S.-born Baptist Devitt. For 25 years 51-year-old William Devitt and his wife Edith have labored among the Kikuyu, traveling 25,000 miles each year through the Rift Valley to direct the mission's 80 schools for Kikuyu children. The natives affectionately call him "Bwana Jambo" (Mister Hello) because of his friendly greetings. When the Mau Mau revolt began in 1952, Devitt organized Kikuyu of his area to protect themselves. For his pains...
Died. Frederick Joubert ("Fritz") Duquesne, 78, South African-born mastermind of one of the biggest (33 men and women) spy networks ever uncovered in the U.S., inveterate Anglophobe, who in 1942 was sentenced to 18 years in prison for Nazi espionage; in a New York City hospital on Welfare Island. A soldier of fortune who played his crafty hand against England for more than 40 years, Duquesne dated his checkered career as international intriguer back to the Boer War (1899-1902). A cool, cunning poseur, he signed his reports to Germany with a rubber-stamp cat's paw, claimed...