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...Gifts Wanted. The Brazzaville speech contributed mightily to the welcome De Gaulle received at Abidjan, his next stop, though some African political leaders in Dakar had an odd objection. "The general misunderstands us," complained one. "He wants to give us our independence, but we want to wrest it away ourselves...
...each territory was to be a Paris-appointed premier, responsible for defense and foreign relations, the domestic power was placed in the hands of elected assemblies, which choose their own cabinet ministers to tax and run each country. Over all these is a Grand Council, which sits in Dakar and coordinates the activities of the entire area...
...education there has been no such spectacular progress. Illiteracy is still enormous. Only 13.5% of the children go to school, and the whole area has only one university-the University of Dakar in Senegal, which has fewer than 1,000 students. But the African leaders are opening new schools every day, preparing for a future that seems destined to follow a pattern of its own. Except among a few Berbers in Mauritania, Nasserism has no appeal; and though it is fashionable in Abidjan for ladies to have a picture of Nkrumah's face woven into their dresses, the example...
English 181, "Narration in the English Novel," and English 279, "Dreiser," both of which will be offered in the Spring, will be taught by Monroe Engel '42, assistant professor of English, and M. Arnavon, professor of English at the University of Dakar, respectively...
...escaped to Spain ahead of the Allied armies, was condemned to death in absentia. Three years ago he surrendered voluntarily to stand trial for treason. This time the High Court judges were calm, judicially correct members of the French Parliament. Charged with negotiating a German mission in Dakar, and with trying to get German arms for use against the Maquis, Guérard, now 60, declared that it was all a double game to fool the Germans. His espousal of the occupation in a 1943 lecture, he testified urbanely, was "merely a defense of the European idea...