Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week from the French stronghold of Le Kef, in the mountainous heart of fellagha country, TIME Correspondent Frank White cabled: Around Le Kef, French colons-colonial planters-were busy with their U.S.-made combines in waist-high grain, harvesting the best crop (56% above average) in the province'...
The French have moved in 1,000 troops, including a detachment of Moroccan goumiers (who dote on killing Tunisians), some black Senegalese, and colonial infantry with tanks. There is also a new civilian controller, a hulking 200-pounder with clear blue eyes, a granite chin and a flair for calm...
Doctrinal Opposition. Ngo Dinh Diem (pronounced no-din-zim), a young-looking 53, was the son of a grand chamberlain of the Annamite court. Earnest, dedicated, a devout Roman Catholic, Diem graduated top of his class in Viet Nam's School of Administration, worked his way through the French...
For more than 100 years, Britons of Her Majesty's Colonial Service have sallied forth to. serve, rule and sweat in countless jungles, swamplands and deserts for the glory of the British Empire. But times have changed; colonies have become dominions, and colonial has become a dirty word. Last...
AIRLINE MERGER between National and Colonial has been okayed by the Civil Aeronautics Board. Though the two lines have not yet started negotiations, CAB, which earlier approved a plan (later vetoed by President Eisenhower) by Eastern to absorb Colonial (TIME, March 8), said that a merger between Colonial and Eastern...