Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even Frenchmen who are tolerant of governmental didoes were disgusted. The nation's top military officer was openly urging sabotage of the Premier's policies, the Defense Minister was defiantly declaring disagreement with the Premier's decisions, army officers and ministers were flouting the Premier's instructions...
...Warriors (Allied Artists). "Ten Frenchmen to one Englishman? That's about right," sneers the Black Prince (Errol Flynn). The Constable of France...
...section of paratroopers drew up in a hurry outside the Hotel des Thermes in Madagascar one day last week. They came not to try the golf course, to splash in the pool or to take the waters (which are said to be good for that old weakspot of Frenchmen, the liver). They came instead to see a splendidly installed prisoner, the exiled Sultan of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef. French General Georges Catroux, 78, found His Majesty waiting for him in a nearby villa once occupied by Aly Khan and Rita Hayworth...
...already broken the back of the Arab revolt; yet last week the killings went on. In Morocco, nationalist saboteurs burned French gasoline dumps; in Algeria, rebel bands fought a four-hour battle with the Foreign Legion, and 54 died. Even in relatively tranquil Tunisia, 23 rebels and eleven Frenchmen were killed in a sudden outbreak. Total casualties in North Africa since Aug. 20: close to 3,000 dead, thousands more wounded...
...Mediterranean littoral where most of its largely Moslem population lives. Pacified, colonized, civilized through 125 years, Northern Algeria is officially a part of metropolitan France, and sends its Deputies to the Paris Parliament. Its approximately one million European settlers produce enormous quantities of the same wine and wheat that Frenchmen already produce in surfeit at home. Result: it must be subsidized from home, to the tune of some $50 million a year...