Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, Tshombe was restocking the army's leadership by recruiting dozens of fresh mercenaries in Europe. One planeload of 32 white fighters already was flying south from Europe. When they got to Northern Rhodesia, Federal Premier Sir Roy Welensky nervously decided the visas of 26 Frenchmen and a Spaniard were not in order, turned them back. His border guards also confiscated 1,700 Ibs. of "clothing," which turned out to be military camouflage garb. But five tough-looking Belgian "mechanics" who had valid visas (and boasted openly to reporters that they were professional fighters) got on a train...
...Salan and his S.A.O. Running gun fights in the streets obviously cannot overthrow De Gaulle; what Salan is believed to be counting on is bringing the Europeans out in a mass demonstration that will pose for the French army in Algeria the grim dilemma of either shooting down Frenchmen or tacitly joining with Salan. As a warning against a ceasefire, the S.A.O. last week plastered posters throughout Algiers. As if parodying De Gaulle's own grand style, the posters were headed, "I, Raoul Salan, commander in chief," and ended grimly by demanding the "mobilization" of all Algerians to oppose...
...intoned: "While our former colonial subjects are discovering their humanity, we seem to be losing ours. We gained our manhood at their expense; now they are gaining their manhood at ours. The colonized peoples are rebuilding their lives while we - ultras and liberals, French settlers in Algeria and Frenchmen at home - find ourselves disintegrating. Fury and fear are naked everywhere...
...West, the situation had its divisive ironies. At Washington's orders, a caravan of giant U.S. Air Force Globe-masters was busy hauling Swedish, Indian and Ethiopian soldiers to the U.N. garrison at Elisabethville, there to fight Belgians, Frenchmen and Britons serving with the Katanga forces. The NATO allies, sorely split over the U.N. intervention, discussed a solution for hours at their Paris conference. They were really discussing the fate of one man-Katanga's Moise Tshombe, the crafty, flamboyant black leader who had taken his copperrich province out of the Congo and called it a nation...
...chance that the Katanga chaos could spread elsewhere in Africa, a continent where political tempers are close to flash point at the best of times. London was especially worried, since Katanga shares a 1,100-mile border with Britain's tense Northern Rhodesia protectorate. Moreover, some Britons and Frenchmen also have heavy financial interests in Katanga itself,* mostly through part ownership of the rich Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, one of the world's biggest copper and cobalt producers, which (according to a report by U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant) has been supplying arms...