Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prove his own point, Andy's anniversary speech, at a midnight cake-cutting upstairs, was delivered in French-for nearly all of the 500 celebrators who gathered round him were Frenchmen. Downstairs, in the room where Gershwin wrote, 30-odd Americans sat around drinking and talking politics...
...people who have no history," the vast majority of Frenchmen, continued to support De Gaulle-and were thus making history. The fact became evident again in the latest of De Gaulle's cross-country tours. On Corsica the fierce, gun-happy islanders (strict security forbade the sky-aimed salvos with which they usually welcome visitors) quickly warmed to the President when he eloquently referred to Corsica's favorite son, Napoleon. In the South of France, coatless despite a severe head cold, De Gaulle drew cheers everywhere except in Marseille, where Red dock workers and right-wing ultras heckled...
...Gaulle to come to power as the one man with sufficient stature to end it. Last week peace seemed closer than ever, as the F.L.N. announced its willingness to settle on the basis of an Algerian plebiscite, agreed to a "transition" period to accustom Moslems to the idea that "Frenchmen and French interests will remain in Algeria...
...were "strongly advised" to be off the streets by 8:30-and soon found that police, with newly issued bulletproof vests and three-foot staves for patrol duty, wasted no time repeating the advice to those who ignored the curfew. Algerians, who theoretically enjoy the same civil rights as Frenchmen, protested that they were subjected to a form of apartheid as virulent as South Africa's-and seizing on that mood, the F.L.N. organized the protest marches that ended in last week's bloody battles...
Concessions on independence, the Sahara, and control of the economically rich area where Frenchmen live, have all been made, he said, with France only demanding guarantee of protection for the French citizens there...