Word: graduall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weak. France is ready to conduct elections under the aegis of the United Nations; the F.L.N. is not. The Algerian war, for the mass of the French population, is not a colonialist war. The war in Algeria is not between colonialists and anti-colonialists; it is between partisans of gradual independence, and extremists, largely interested in exterminating one another as at Melouzza, extremists who are every ounce as narrow-minded as the colonials whom everyone seems to despise...
...Pineau have taken a significant step forward in introducing a bill for limited Algerian autonomy into the Chamber of Deputies. Only the French could be so perverse as to defeat such a bill twice in a row. The best hope for peace in North Africa is a program of gradual independence under the sponsorship and with the guidance of France. The French legislators, irrational or not, cannot ignore the need and the solution forever...
Nevertheless, he stated, there have been cases of peaceful integration. These incidents, he said, show that "the plan of gradual integration county by county should be given full consideration...
...stronger than Governor Stanley: he was an able Congressman and attorney general, won Byrd's grudging benediction for governor by starting early, shrewdly maneuvering other hopefuls out of contention. Nonetheless, Republican Ted Dalton had an outside chance against Almond because before Little Rock Dalton was talking sense about gradual integration and-to the quiet disgust of many Virginia Democrats-Almond was peddling the massive-resistance nonsense that Harry Byrd had decreed. Then the federal troops flew into Arkansas...
...cited gradual preparation and "excellent" political leadership at both the local and state levels as reasons for Louisville's successful integration. Pearce maintained that in any area of the South, "while popular will is not going to bring integration," it can be imposed by Southern leaders. He credited a hard-working, moderate group with effecting the peaceful integration in Louisville. The majority of the people there were against integration but were convinced to accept it, Pearce said. The journalist said that there is no large scale integration because the Negroes are "economically districted" into separate neighborhoods...