Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outer precincts of French power, the sweep of Charles de Gaulle's triumph increased. In Martinique in the Caribbean the ratio was 14-1 for De Gaulle. On the Pacific island of New Caledonia, 52-1. In the Sahara, 70-1. Of 18 overseas territories, only French Guinea voted no. French residents in the Soviet Union plumped for De Gaulle 74-43, and in the New York voting area, 2,343 to 152. France itself, in a record turnout, jammed the polling places to roll up a majority of 79.25% for the new Gaullist constitution...
...morning last week, 50 Guinean maidens clad in pink robes and blue turbans gathered outside a large white house in Conakry to serenade the man who had just brought them independence. Alone among the territories of French West Africa, Guinea (pop. 2,500,000) had voted no to the new French constitution. But the young man responsible was hardly in a mood for jubilation. At a brief ceremony, Premier Sékou Touré, 36, took over as chief of government, then faced the outsized task of setting up a government for a new nation that had not even taken...
...results in the overseas territories were as astonishing. Only French Guinea, in the control of tough anti-Gaullist Premier Sekou Toure, voted no. Senegal, Niger, even supposedly sullen Madagascar came through with thumping oui majorities...
...French Africa. Houphouet-Boigny, 52, who has come a long way since the days when he was an admirer of Communism, is convinced that its people can advance farther and faster with French technical and financial help than by swerving off into nationalist adventures with his neighbors, French Guinea and Ghana. Says Houphouet-Boigny: "I'll make a date with Ghana in ten years' time...
...French Guinea what Sekou Touré says goes. His political control is so tight and his followers so quick to violence and intimidation that even French observers gloomily expect Guinea to vote no by more than 90%. Yet his outburst was as unexpected as it was final. Some blamed it on a personality clash that occurred on De Gaulle's visit to Conakry last month. Angered by Sekou Touré's public criticism of the new constitution, De Gaulle refused to dine with the Guinean Premier. More important, probably, is Touré's vaulting ambition...