Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narrowest margin of his meteoric, five-month tenure: 321 to 207. Later in the week, on the eve of his take-off for a ten-day visit to Canada and the U.S., Mendès asked the Assembly to postpone debate on the ugly North African situation until his return. Again he won-but by a still narrower margin...
Being a South African, I was very disappointed in your article . . . Why you should adopt this biased and unjustified attitude towards a man and a political party striving to preserve "white" civilization on a dark continent is beyond comprehension . . . The role of the white man in South Africa is that of a Christian guardian to the black people, who are, on the whole, a backward and unambitious race...
Pursuit in the Hills. When the bloody day ended, eight Frenchmen and pro-French natives were dead, more than 30 wounded. Paris Le Monde lamented: "All this happened as if an invisible hand were looking for a way to destroy Franco-North African solidarity at the exact moment when we were about ready to strengthen it." Premier Pierre Mendès-France, who wants peace and a settlement in North Africa, had just served notice, in one of his fireside chats, that his government was going ahead with plans to let French Africa "have her large part in the social...
...Hunter is a white man whose love of Africa is different from Camara Laye's, but probably no less intense. He came there as one of the earliest professional white hunters and his TALES OF THE AFRICAN FRONTIER [written with Daniel Mannix; 308 pp.; Harper; $4) is highly satisfying armchair-adventure stuff. Hunter's heroes are African pioneers. A good example of the breed is Colonel Ewart Grogan, now 80 and living in Kenya, who started in 1898 to walk from the Cape of Good Hope to the Sudan to map out a railroad route dreamed...
Baboons & a Beard. Last week the last of the Grimaldis, his strapping and handsome Serene Highness Prince Rainier III, Due de Valentinois, Marquis des Baux, Baron de St. Lô, Compte de Carladès and seigneur of many another feudal fee, returned home from an African vacation to reassume his duties as absolute Prince of Monaco. His 2,245 subjects, who together with some 20,000 foreigners make up the population of Monaco, gave every sign of being glad to have him back. When the royal motor yacht Deo Juvante II glided past the harbor breakwater...