Word: colon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conservatives in his right-center coalition to accept the "double dismissal plan" he had worked out with Morocco's leaders (TIME, Sept. 5). The hardest man to convince was Faure's own Foreign Minister, Antoine Pinay, whose right-wing Independents are strongly influenced by the pro-colon lobby in the French National Assembly. As the long angry afternoon wore on, little groups of Ministers broke out of the chamber to cool off in the garden. Before the session ended, both Pinay and Faure had threatened to resign...
...That looks like one of them," said the grim-faced French colon. From the six Moroccan tribesmen bound together with a single rope, he picked out a shaven-headed Berber, captured by the French Foreign Legion in the plundered shambles that had been the prosperous town of Oued Zem (pop. 4,600). A helmeted Legionnaire slapped the suspect on the head and led him out to be shot. Thus, last week began France's bloody revenge for one of the bloodiest massacres of Europeans in modern colonial history...
...French point with pride to their material achievements in Morocco. Infant mortality rates have dropped from 32 to 19 per 1,000 since 1930; Morocco's population has tripled since 1912. The colons own only one-seventh of the land, but it is by far the best; they raise 30% of Morocco's farm products but, unlike the Moroccans, get a. 20% rebate on their property taxes. Morocco's fine French roads run past colon farms, its dams are sited with an eye to watering those lands...
...impassioned colons, however, Gilbert Grandval was to blame. Grandval had bargained with the Moroccans, the Moroccans committed the murders. Therefore, Grandval was an accomplice, ran the colon argument. Their passions burst forth one day last week at an elaborate military funeral held in Rabat. The funeral was for tough-minded French General Raymond Duval. whose light plane crashed in the Atlas foothills during the operations against the Berbers. Because Duval had opposed Grandval's policies, the fantastic rumor spread that the Resident had sabotaged the general's plane...
Market Up. Already the bomb craters in the Plaza de Mayo were filled in and paved over. The jittery stock market picked up. The Colon opera house found the tension relaxed enough to present Giordano's Andrea Chenier, which sings of a French revolutionary's doomed, gallant fight for what many Argentines still wish they had: liberty. By midweek the army troops who had occupied central Buenos Aires were back in their barracks, and General Lucero publicly handed back the special "repression" powers that for another, more ambitious man might have been an admirable springboard to total power...