Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Date Fatidique and the days following the fateful date that brought thousands of Moslem terrorists out of the hills (TIME, Aug. 29), claimed the lives of 92 Frenchmen and at least 1,000 Moroccans. But that was only a beginning; last week the Berber tribes were still on the rampage in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains that straddle central Morocco. Shouting horsemen, brandishing antique guns, swept into Khouribga, where the French own phosphate mines, joined up with the Arab miners and hacked 203 people to death. Near by, Moroccan iron workers in the town of Ait Amar dragged their...
...French pressed on with what Premier Faure called "unrelenting repression." The fury of France's revenge was the measure of Frenchmen's alarm...
...invested tens of billions of dollars in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Its businessmen depend heavily on them for markets, raw materials and labor; its army taps their manpower. "Without North Africa," French imperialists say, "France would have no history in the 21st century. We should be 40 million Frenchmen facing twice that number of Germans. Another Portugal...
...wish to deal with reasonable men, so you'll have to deal with madmen," said one of the Istiqlal leaders when the French arrested him. Madmen were soon on the warpath. In the teeming bidonvilles, where few Frenchmen dare enter, veiled women made grenades. Their menfolk banded together in terrorist societies-the Black Crescent, Black Hand, and many others. Egged on by the mullahs and by the Voice of the Arabs, a Cairo propaganda station supported by the Egyptian government, young Moslem fanatics began bombing French stores, derailing trains and stabbing French civilians. In 1954, the long knives...
...height of the Mau Mau war, they organized gangs of counterterrorists among the "poor white" Spaniards and Corsicans who lurk in Morocco's big towns. French terrorists began shooting Moroccans in broad daylight, and the police did nothing to stop it. White terrorists in Morocco also murdered Frenchmen whom they suspected of being too sympathetic to the Nationalists. Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, the influential editor of the modern Maroc-Presse, wrote Premier Faure: "The situation is getting worse." That night last June, as he stepped out of his luxurious Casablanca apartment, Lemaigre-Dubreuil was machine-gunned to death...