Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaflets & Buses. Next day, as the rioting rolled on, anonymous leaflets flooded the city urging Frenchmen to take up arms in protest against the Café Gonin bombing and Grandval's "soft" policy. In groups of two and three hundred, European vigilantes stormed through the city, pillaging and burning native shops, overturning buses. Most vengeful were the Pied Noir (Black Foot), half-breeds of mixed Italian, Spanish and Moroccan blood and Morocco's equivalent of the South's "poor white," who hate the native Moroccans with a fury based on economic insecurity. In the heart...
...Frenchmen celebrated Bastille Day everywhere but on the fairways of La Boulie golf course near suburban Versailles. There Byron Nelson, 43, the tall, greying Texan who won the U.S. Open championship back in 1939, showed his old touch on the greens and his old straight skill off the tee, to take the French Open championship with a 17-under-par 271. Last American to take the title: Walter Hagen...
...world's liveliest carnival of ideas, the mandarins dispute, propound and quarrel. Every week 380,000 Frenchmen buy the four intellectual weeklies that record their latest pronouncements. In regular newspapers, they often command more attention than politicians or priest Roman Catholic Novelist François Mauriac, in Le Figaro, urges French youth to a more dynamic Christian socialism. Existentialist Merleau-Ponty attacks Sartre for his latter-day allegiance to Stalinism in L'Express, is answered by Simone de Beauvoir in Les Temps Modernes...
...week's end the President of France, René Coty, made one of his infrequent departures from Olympian impartiality. In a speech he endorsed Faure's program for a peaceful "interdependence" in North Africa, condemned "abominable violence" by Frenchmen, and attacked Arab agitators from "certain foreign countries...
...Algeria, 270,000 in Tunisia, 360,000 in Morocco-have contributed a share in the economic and cultural development of the country which is disproportionate to their numbers. In general, farming methods are more modern and profits are higher on lands cultivated by French colons. Emigration of Frenchmen might precipitate the collapse of the country's resources at a moment when the pressure of growing population is particularly strong; the handing over of all power to an improvised government might touch off an emigration which everyone wishes to avoid...