Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Calling for an improvement in our "haphazard" granting of aid, Miss Ward emphasized the need for a permanent administrative staff. She merited the old colonial system with "putting trained men, who are able to speak the natives' language, in the field for a lifetime. Although I am not asking for...
Minister Resident Robert Lacoste, charged with the job of demonstrating French control over the Arab population (which outnumbers the French by nearly nine to one), had his task complicated by French counterterrorists, known locally as Ultras, who are mostly poorly employed veterans of colonial wars in Morocco and Indo-China...
With men like these fighting him, Mollet's hopes of taking France into the Common Market seemed likely to go glimmering. Desperately, the Premier sounded out the four co-signers of the colonial motion, asking whether they realized how totally unacceptable it was to the rest of the Common...
Sandys is now mulling over the idea of replacing conscription with U.S.-style selective service. He is also preparing to reduce Britain's NATO forces in Germany. With British forces gone from Iraq, going from Ceylon, and practically expelled from their last two bases in Jordan, experts are advising...
The satellites could blame their sorry economic plight directly on Russia, which conducts 1/5 of its foreign trade with Iron Curtain countries-mostly to its own advantage. Reversing the usual form of colonial exploitation, in which colonies are used as sources of raw materials, Russia feeds the satellites raw materials...