Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chief opposition came not from Frenchmen but from Algerian nationalists, who seemed to have moved their rebellion to Metropolitan France for the occasion. In a week of sabotage and terrorism, F.L.N. agents shot up soldiers and policemen, blew up gas tanks and prefectures, booby-trapped an army tank bound for Algeria. Information Minister Jacques Soustelle, who is bitterly hated by the rebels as the chief political mentor of the Algerian colons, barely escaped assassination when an Algerian thrust a revolver through the rear window of his Citroën as it stopped for a red light in the heart...
...vast majority of Frenchmen there seemed little choice. Either they would go on to De Gaulle's new constitution, or they would go back to governmental chaos. Having had plenty of the latter, an estimated 60-70% will probably cast their votes for the constitution...
According to the script prepared with loving care by the men around De Gaulle, the drama unveiled last week in the Place de la Republique was to be a demonstration of popular affection for De Gaulle-a stirring show that would prompt Frenchmen everywhere to vote oui in the Sept. 28 referendum on the new constitution. But when the show finally opened, it flopped...
...Peculiarities of national speech make it nearly impossible for a Greek to pronounce a b, an Arab a p, a Russian an h, a Frenchman a th. In the Sicilian Vespers of 1282, when Sicilians rebelled against their Angevin overlords, those suspected of being Frenchmen were forced, in an irresistible repeat of the Biblical shibboleth, to repeat the Italian phrase ceci e ciceri, and slaughtered when they could not manage the Italian ch sound...
...general himself-proud, dedicated, remote, positive, full of paternal silences and prestigious mysteries. This week he is off on a 14,000-mile jet tour of Madagascar, Equatorial and West Africa, to sell a simple yes response to his package that with one word will commit all Frenchmen, whatever their questions and reservations, to the course he has set for them...