Word: coloniale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond such holdings, Wolin says, Communism has "unique opportunities." To many ex-colonial peoples, "the U.S.S.R. seems a highly industrialized country . . . Soviet military might impresses them . . . Soviet propaganda of nationalism, independence and state sovereignty, sincere or not, evokes strong, emotional response." Yet Communism, outside China and its bordering areas, is...
Born: April 9, 1906, the younger of two sons, in London. His mother was Scottish, his father an English official in the colonial service. Young Hugh spent his first years shuttling with a nanny between England and Burma.
Dwarfing the Mau Mau. The killers call themselves fellagha (outlaws). They are nationalists-turned-terrorists, who are fast transforming France's most prized colony (technically a part of metropolitan France) into its greatest colonial hazard. In the first nine days of December, in the single departement of Constantine, they...
Marksmen Without Mortars. The revolt that the French refuse to call a war has driven hundreds of French settlers from the irrigated farms they had carved out in the Algerian hills, closed down mines and quarries, converted scores of villages into sandbagged strongpoints. It has sucked into Algeria over 200...
¶ Alta Cossart Lawson, a ferocious doyenne of Vincentown, N.J., returns now and then-they say-to stalk up and down -in front of the ruin of her mansion, in extirpation of the night she forced her drunken, demented son to lop off the head of his meek little wife...