Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the young non-Communists -a majority of the U.S. delegation-tried to win representation on the festival steering committee, they got a lesson in Communist procedural manipulation. On the transparent pretext that a number of registration cards had been stolen, Festival Chairman (and French Communist) Jean Garcias flatly refused to recognize the majority's officers...
Among the odd cults that nourish in the French Congo, perhaps the oddest of all is the Matswa cult, which takes its name from a Congolese who served as a French army sergeant in World War I. Preaching passive resistance against the French, Andre Matswa persuaded his followers not to pay taxes, accept identity cards or cultivate peanuts as ordered by the French. He died of dysentery in a French Congo prison in 1942. His disciples, deifying him, hold that he is still alive and will return one day to the Congo to drive the whites out. In their legend...
Most of the French Congo's 15,000 Matswanists either abstain from voting in elections or vote for the dead Matswa. Particularly nettled by such tactics is the Abbe Fulbert Youlou, Premier of the new Congo Republic, because the Matswanists are of his own tribe-the Lari. Since the Congo recently became self-governing, there have been frequent-clashes between Matswanists and other Lari tribesmen. The Matswanists were stoned; their homes were burned. Driven out of their own countryside, 2,500 Matswanist refugees squatted in a suburb of the capital of Brazzaville and refused to be evacuated...
...does his best to ignore the feuds, headed for his summer home in the mountains, there to greet a group of visiting Lebanese-Americans (TIME, Aug. 3). Among his invited guests: bulky Nairn Moghabghab, 48, one of the heroes of Lebanon's long independence struggle against the French. It was Guerrilla Moghabghab who in 1944 shot a French soldier who was trying to replace the Lebanese flag with the Tricolor atop Beirut's parliament building. Moghabghab became a Deputy and later Minister of Works...
...viceroy. Elizabeth chose the first French Canadian ever to be appointed to the post. He is Major General George Philias Vanier, 71, a courtly soldier-diplomat whose family settled in Quebec in 1681. A World War I hero who lost a leg at the Cherisy campaign, Vanier was Canada's first Ambassador to France, has lived quietly in retirement since...