Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, in the odd way that news is made these days in France, the major French news agency said that France would "strongly support" Spain for membership in NATO, though it would not necessarily nominate it. The dispatch came as something of a surprise to the Quai d'Orsay, where only Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville knew about...
...Toure by calling him "Elephant." But on the Ivory Coast (which lies between Ghana and Guinea, and wants no part of their merger), crowds have tagged their own strongman with the simple name of "Vive." The name could not be more apt: few men in the kaleidoscopic politics of French Africa have shown a greater talent for survival than 53-year-old Félix Houphouet-Boigny...
Houphouet first became the idol of his people shortly after World War II, when he launched a campaign against the French settlers who raided villages for the laborers they needed and then, at harvest's end, paid each victim barely enough to get home again. When the French tried to gather evidence against Houphouet, who was then following the Communist line, they found not a single African who would inform. The French soon gave up the chase-having made a conquest. After throwing off his Communist ties. Houphouet popped up in Paris, became French West Africa's leading...
Three-Way Race. Three great movements are now contending for the political future of French West Africa, a stretch of territory eight times the size of France. One favors a set of small nations, each closely tied with France; this is Houphouet's view, and De Gaulle calls him "a great Frenchman and a great African." At the opposite extreme is Guinea's Sekou...
Toure, who alone voted no to De Gaulle's French constitution setting up a new French Community. He is for African independence first and hang the economic consequences. In between are those who want independence without losing the economic benefits of links with France. Four months ago they set up the ambitious Mali Federation, combining Dahomey, Upper Volta, Senegal and the French Sudan. The big question for French West Africa: Which of the three movements will finally...