Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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His "career" began when, after becoming an influential lawyer at Nîmes, he was sent as a beady-eyed, black-mustached Magistrate, first to Indo-China (1890-92) and then to Algeria (1892-93). Returning, he was elected a Deputy, became a noted authority on colonial administration, held several...
Throughout the War he served with distinction as Colonial Minister and then became President of the Senate (1923-24).
Significance. The Jebel Druses, numbering some 6,000 fighting men under command of Sultan El Atrash Pasha, have sufficiently demonstrated their ability to keep the 20,000 French and French colonial troops sent against them from pacifying Syria. It is conceded by experts that with 30,000 more French troops...
Four columns of Italian colonial troops set out with two detachments of machine gunners last week to mop up the Jebel-el-Akdar, a mountainous rebel-infested region, whence the peace of Italian Cyrenaica?a coastal area directly across the Mediterranean from Greece?is often threatened.
The commoners shouted and so did even the Duke of this and the Duchess of that. They called her back again and again after each curtain; gave her a riotous ovation when Lord Stanley of Alderly, chairman of the Royal Colonial Institute, presented her with a gigantic floral display that...