Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deputies believe passionately that North Africa must be held at all costs if France is to remain a big power, those who favor holding it by savage repression were on the defensive. The Casablanca murder of Publisher Lemaigre-Dubreuil in Morocco (TIME, June 27), a Frenchman killed by other Frenchmen for being moderate, had stirred all France. Premier Faure seized his chance. His government, said Faure, "will never agree to renounce, palter with, or open to question the French position in Morocco." But there must be a new policy for Morocco and a new man to implement it. Out went...
...attributed." In Casablanca, suspects were hustled to police headquarters with paper bags over their heads to conceal their identities. Members of the gang had reportedly confessed to participating in 80 "incidents," including the burning of an Arab market, the murder of several Arab farmers, and bomb attacks on local Frenchmen...
...after hard-boiled General Guillaume, smelled of negotiation and compromise, and they denounced the national government's policy as "treason." Clandestine French organizations sprang up, calling themselves "The White Hand," and "Agir" (to act). They were manned by hired killers imported from France, professional thugs, sometimes ex-policemen. Frenchmen who advocated moderation and negotiation began to receive threatening letters ("Pig. you have sold out to the rats. Your days are numbered...
...shouting "Beelee! Beelee! Beelee!" "Bee-lee? Who is this Beelee?" asked a harassed official. Said a bystander in surprise: "Why, monsieur, do you not know Beelee Graham, the American clairvoyant?" Thanks to a wave of advance publicity and hundreds of portrait posters pasted throughout Paris and the provinces, most Frenchmen thought they knew who Billy was. The fact that few precisely understood his religious role or the meaning of his evangelistic crusade did not prevent them from according him a hysterical, slightly disoriented acclaim that surprised no ons more than the handsome evangelist...
...defect in the public-address system caused a buzzing that made it difficult to hear parts of Billy's sermon. But when he called for "decisions for Christ," 623 Frenchmen-young and old, shabby and well-dressed-shuffled down the aisle while a mixed choir of 500 sang softly and Billy waited with folded arms...