Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living in Middle Africa. It has worked well. France's policy, in the great sweep of its Middle Africa territories, Equatorial Africa and the Western Sudan, has been that of education and assimilation-the idealistic if not always practicable notion that once Africans think of themselves as Frenchmen, everything will be all right. In Mozambique and Angola, Portugal, the poorest and least progressive of the white masters, offers an approximation of social equality but little else...
...film entries rather than with the spectacle of unknown starlets baring things for the photographers. The festival's French judges had mixed feelings about Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's film version of Columnist Robert Ruark's Something of Value. Reason: Something is some affront to most Frenchmen; its story of British colonialism's bitter fruit in Kenya unhappily resembles France's current gory predicament in Algeria. M-G-M unhappily scratched this entry. Most sensational movie shown in Cannes was the Soviet Union's The Forty-First, marking the Russian moviemakers' discovery that...
...police inspectors, making the rounds of Paris' Quartier Jean-Jaurès, had been jumped by four armed Algerians. Since the war began, gunfights between Algerians have been an everyday event in France proper (120 killed, 741 wounded this year), but this was a planned attack on Frenchmen in Paris. The worst fears of the Paris police were being realized: Algeria's nationalists had decided to bring their war to the mainland, not for military gains but for the counterterrorism that they calculated it would provoke...
...prevented moderate Moslems from getting together with the French (near Constantine a fortnight ago police found the trussed cadavers of nine Moslem delegates who had agreed to participate with the French in a municipal-reform program). On the other hand, it has driven Algeria's million Frenchmen to a frenzy of resentment and counterterror. Typical were the riots provoked by the assassination in Algiers of Patrol Sergeant Camille le Prial, which last week brought more than a hundred paratroopers smashing through the casbah and resulted in the death of three Moslems, a score injured. Such incidents work...
...fields, and a slim harvest means hunger, discontent, and a flight from the starving countryside into the already bursting bidonvilles. Morocco is also confronted with the need of developing its own administrators, technicians and civil servants (the government's daily business is still conducted by some 11,000 Frenchmen). A crash educational program has been devised: private houses converted into schools, teachers drafted, and any Moroccan with a good education is asked to teach 20 others what he has learned. The Ministry of Education has blueprinted a plan to put every Moroccan child into school within five years...