Word: anticolonialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight years-fearing that it would become just one more platform for anticolonialist tirades-European colonial powers had opposed setting up a U.N. commission for Africa like those already in existence for Asia, Europe and Latin America. Not until last spring, and after U.S. prompting, did the U.N. finally establish the E.G.A. headquarters in Ethiopia, oldest independent nation on the continent. Membership: six European nations, nine independent African countries, and associates from colonial and trust territories. In a continent with a bewildering array of problems and a disheartening lack of experience, the commission hopes to help raise living standards...
...placards cried "Freedom!" or "Ne Touchez Pas l'Afrique," and the torrent of anticolonialist oratory at the All African People's Conference in Accra last week seemed to have no end. "Whereas, 72 years ago the scramble for Africa started," said young (28) Conference Chairman Tom Mboya of Kenya, "from Accra we announce that these same powers must be told in a clear, firm and definite voice: 'Scram from Africa...
...days with three rebel units in the Berber area and in western Constantine, made a forced march with them. Back in Paris, she wrote her story for the new Socialist weekly Demain, which generally backs Premier Guy Mollet's foreign policy but opposes him on Algeria. Staunchly anticolonialist, the story referred to the rebels throughout as "le Maquis"-a name synonymous in France with the glory of the undercover fight against the Nazis...
...animated by the liberal traditions for which France is justly famous, has concluded agreements . . . Henceforth the relationships between France, on the one hand, and Morocco and Tunisia on the other, will be freely negotiated as between sovereign equals . . . You have all heard that the people of the U.S. are "anticolonialist" by tradition. That is true and we are proud...
...Compromiser. By instinct and his Socialist upbringing a pacifist and anticolonialist, Guy Mollet did not like the role he was cast in. Lacoste's 200,000 men would mean calling up French youths months early and keeping others in the army past their time, outraging thousands of French mothers with votes. On the other hand, talk of negotiations with "the murderers of French women and children" would antagonize thousands of others. For eight hours the Cabinet debated and argued. Lacoste at one point resigned, then was persuaded to reconsider. Finally Mollet compromised on a crash economic program...