Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constitution that for the first time in 88 years endows the executive branch with enough authority to pursue coherent policies. He has all but destroyed the Communist Party as an active factor in French government, has laid the groundwork for a fruitful new relationship between France and her onetime African colonies, and has immensely strengthened France's moral and psychological position in revolt-torn Algeria. Above all, he has given Frenchmen back their pride, swept away the miasma of self-contempt that has hung over France since its ignominious capitulation to Hitler...
...Jacques Soustelle out of Algiers and making him his Minister of Information, De Gaulle yanked the insurgents' sharpest tooth, yet at the same time gave the embattled settlers enough of a payoff to keep them submissive if not content. By tying the vote on autonomy for France's Black African territories to the vote on his proposed constitution, he obliged right-wingers to swallow his liberal colonial policy, at the same time picked up 9,000,000 African votes to swell his majority in the constitutional referendum. By showing himself willing to offer Algeria's Moslem rebels something besides naked...
...since the showy junket of Khrushchev and Bulganin three years ago had India staged such a gaudy welcome. At the New Delhi airport last week, crowds surged forward and nearly smothered their guest from overseas with garlands. Prime Minister Nehru hailed him as "the symbol of African independence." From Ghana, Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah had come for his first visit to Asian soil. "In Africa," cooed Bombay's Free Press Journal, "it is Dr. Nkrumah who wears the mantle of the Mahatma...
...playing his role as Big Brother of anticolonialism. Then Nkrumah rose to say that as a student in the U.S., he had read Nehru's books and asked himself, "Why isn't that man in Africa?" He called Ghana "the springboard for the final liberation of the African continent . . . Africa," he cried, "must be free...
...admirers call him their messiah. To the whites, he is either the biggest demagogue to come down the pike, or a deluded mystic, and in either case dangerous. Never has Dr. Banda appeared in better-or worse-form than last week, on his return from Nkrumah's All-African Peoples Conference in Accra. The experience had been heady...