Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forward. "We regret to declare." he announced, "that the provisional government of the Algerian Republic does not presently see any prospect for peace in Algeria." Yazid went on to warn off Standard Oil of New Jersey, which had just negotiated oil-exploration rights in the Algerian Sahara with the French. "Our people are not tied by deals concluded with the enemy." warned Yazid, "and consider them an act of hostility toward the Algerian people...
Three days later Charles de Gaulle went on television for his first speech to the French people since he became President of the Fifth Republic. "A sterile struggle still drags on in Algeria." he said. "The war can lead only to useless misery. It must come to an end soon. Why not at once, in the honorable conditions that I have proposed...
...along the 1200-mile arc from Casablanca to Tunis last week, people-Arabs and French alike-mourned the sorry state of things with the same cliché: Nous sommes dépassés par les événements (We are outstripped by events). As long as the war in Algeria continued, there was not much hope for peace or stability in neighboring Tunisia and Morocco, and both of them were in sore trouble...
...desperate moments, Algerian rebel leaders spoke of "spreading the war" by involving Tunisia and Morocco in it too. The rulers of Tunisia and Morocco, torn between natural sympathy for their Algerian "brothers" and their own economic links with the French, hope to stay out. Three years after winning independence from France, both countries are plagued with poverty, unemployment and threats to authority...
Bourguiba has become, in many senses, a prisoner of his Algerian guests. He has allowed them to establish supply depots, training camps, mutual-aid societies everywhere, and in the process the Algerians have infiltrated every branch of Tunisian administration. Bourguiba sees himself as a mediator between the French and the Algerians, but finds no takers. Says harassed Habib Bourguiba of his own land, with more truth than immodesty: "A stray bullet may kill me and the country would be plunged into anarchy...