Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Out of the French army's soul-destroying trial by fire in Algeria there has so far emerged one superlatively good combat commander, a 42-year-old ex-bank clerk from Toul named Marcel Bigeard (TIME. April 28). So notable is Colonel Bigeard's tactical genius and so...
"Risks & Perils." As on the powers of the presidency, De Gaulle was firm to the point of bluntness. He had no rigid conception of what the colonial federation should be, nor was he against allowing the federation to form alliances with other African states in "a vast community of free...
As a final damper on the Assembly, the Fifth Republic would be ruled by a double-headed executive. Under the terms of the De Gaulle constitution, France would still have a Premier responsible to Parliament, but his ministers would have to resign their parliamentary seats. And over all would be...
Milestone: the Baghdad Pact. The U.S. helped set up a new grouping of Britain, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Iraq designed to seal off the Middle East's northern tier, halfway supported the pact but did not join it, for fear of offending Saudi Arabia and India and of getting...
Nasser was born, an assistant postmaster's son, of Egyptian-Arab land-tilling stock in the Upper Nile Valley in 1918, the year the exhausted European colonial powers won a great war but began to lose their world supremacy. Then: