Word: french
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...else - government of Algerians by Algerians, backed up by French help and in close relationship with France as regards economy, education, de fense and foreign relations...
...integration with France . . . Algerians would benefit as regards salaries, social security, education and vocational training, from all measures provided for in Metropolitan France; they would live and work wherever they saw fit throughout the territory of the Republic; in other words, they would . . . become part and parcel of the French people, who would then, in effect, spread from Dunkirk to Tamanrasset...
...glowing screens in France and Algeria appeared tall, grave Charles de Gaulle, seated at his desk, ready to disclose to France and the world his plan to end the savage, five-year-old Algerian war. His words, ringing with purpose, marked a watershed in French history: "I deem it necessary that recourse to self-determination be here and now proclaimed...
Fateful Choices. No other French leader had ever dared to offer the 9,000,000 Algerians what Charles de Gaulle was holding forth to them: a free choice to decide their own future political status, even to secede peacefully from France if that was what they wanted. Algerians, said De Gaulle, could opt for 1) independence, 2) complete political and economic integration with France, or 3) home rule under France's wing...
...more circumspect--to hoard my moments with a more thrifty spirit--to listen less to the suggestions of indolence, and so quicken that spirit of intellectual improvement to which I devote my life." In addition to copious readings in the classics, he spent a great deal of time learning French, studying botany, keeping an extensive diary, and attending to affairs legal and political...