Word: backflipped
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...July. A few weeks later, Ce Soir briskly backtracked: "The story was politically unjust . . . offensive to [a] high personality [living] in deportation and forced residence. The necessary remonstrances have been sent to our correspondent. Our rule on Ce Soir is professional conscience . . . respect for the truth." This routine Bolshevik backflip meant merely that Ce Soir's editors had been "officially informed" of what they should have known all along: Tunisia's Communist Party, culled from 110,000 French and 95,000 Italian residents, had rekindled among 2,300,000 Moslems and Bedouins the fires of independence fanned...