Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The prisoners were loosely guarded. One moonless night, Leriche, four other Frenchmen and one German legionnaire stole away. They soon learned why escape had been so easy: travel through the jungle was impossible, partly because of tigers. The fleeing men moved only by night, and stuck to the main colonial...
The No. 3 man was a French professor named Pierre Boudarel, a former philosophy lecturer at a Saigon lycee. Boudarel's line was that the U.S. was backing the Indo-China war because it wanted to take over colonial power in Indo-China from the French.
The British Commonwealth crowned its Queen in elegance that momentarily revived a great past and lifted spirits. But the vast realm over which she reigns trembled again with the ague of disintegration-the Sudan broke away, all colonial Africa throbbed with the presence or possibility of violence and shouts for...
Nehru swung bitterly to Pakistan and the cold war. "In our quiet way," he said, "we have worked for this area as ... the no-war area. Now if military aid comes to Pakistan from the U.S., the cold war, as it is called, comes to India's borders. The...
Beaten and humiliated, the Socialists would have been prudent to retire to do some badly needed homework on colonial geography. But they pressed the fight, switching the battleground to the Protectorate of Uganda, where Lyttelton fortnight ago dethroned King Mutesa II (TIME, Dec. 14). The Socialists tabled a motion of...