Word: anti-french
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...assistant professor of Middle Eastern Studies, contributes a valuable discussion of a little-known problem (little-known to me, certainly): the dilemma of Jews in North Africa, who, struggling for a century to gain equality with the colonizing French, suddenly found themselves excluded from the growing Moslem nationalist, anti-French revolutionary movements...
...real test of Louis Joxe's nerves came last fortnight when the Algerian government agreed to a last-ditch attempt to reach a settlement. Joxe was convinced that the Algerians would be able to resist pressure from their own anti-French extremists only if the negotiations were hermetically sealed off from newsmen. As a meeting place Joxe chose Les Rousses, a crowded but unfashionable French ski resort near the Swiss border. There the French team took over the government-owned Chalet du Yeti (the Cottage of the Abominable Snowman). The Algerians, quartered across the border at a lakeside resort...
...first year at Sadiki, he and his lifelong friend Mohammed ben Hamouda had joined an anti-French demonstration through the streets of Tunis. Recalls Hamouda, now a pharmacist in Tunis: "We were finally rounded up, given a good spanking, and sent home. But this made a profound impression on Slim. From that time on, his life was politics...
...Annamese warriors were no match for the French, who arrived in the mid-19th century to cut roads and rail lines through the jungle, introduce rubber and expand the rice area for the profit of Paris. But the conquerors were not suffered docilely. As early as 1912, an anti-French nationalist organization called the Viet Nam Quang Phuc Hoi (Association for the Restoration of Viet Nam) was operating from Canton...
Brezhnev can expect to harvest even more sympathy at his next stop, Sékou Touré's anti-French Communist-lining Guinea...