Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain the possibility of being rid of a nagging issue outweighed the discomfort of seeing the fate of a British colony decided by two other powers, whose prescription was for the British...
These were high-flown words-and thoughts-to come from the pen of an old soldier. But they were words carefully calculated for their effect on France's restless officers. The moral that Ely and De Gaulle clearly intended them to draw: the fate of Western civilization will rest in part on the manner in which France and the French army conduct themselves in the awakening nations of France's former African empire...
...Indictment. State Department officials locked up the incredible evidence until they could learn the fate of the 17 U.S. Air Force men on the plane. Through normal channels, the U.S. asked the Russians for an accounting. In reply, the Soviets denied any knowledge of the plane. Later, after U.S. protests, the Reds "found" the wreckage, turned over to the U.S. six bodies (TIME, Sept. 29), stridently denied that they had shot the plane down, insisted that it had just crashed and that they had no information about the eleven airmen who were missing...
...Away. "We do not wish," Touré had said, "to settle our fate without France or against France." But De Gaulle at first was quite willing to carry on without Guinea. Paris announced that all French functionaries would be withdrawn within two months. Toure's brash reply: Remove them in eight days. While French shopkeepers and businessmen stayed on, 350 officials and their families began moving out. French justice stopped. A ship heading for Guinea with a carload of rice went to the Ivory Coast instead. Radio Conakry temporarily went off the air. The Guineans charged that the departing...
TUNISIA. Volatile President Habib Bourguiba, 55, runs his nation like a one-man show, dismissing opponents, lecturing visitors, and ruling by decree. But he is not the complete master of Tunisia's fate, or of his own. His professions of loyalty to the West have earned him the hatred of the neutralists. Nasser's Radio Cairo beams an unceasing stream of Goebbels-like propaganda into Tunisia...