Word: insurrectionism
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What turned the tide was De Gaulle's unflinching courage and his overwhelming support in Metropolitan France. The mutineers had counted on De Gaulle's reluctance to order French soldiers to fire on French soldiers, but the old man did not hesitate, sternly told the loyal armed forces...
Challe later surrendered and was flown off to Paris, a prisoner. Carrying his own suitcase, looking crumpled and insignificant in civilian clothes, he stumbled at the foot of the landing steps in Paris, fell heavily on his hands and knees. Charged with leading an armed insurrection, he faced a possible...
In Paris, a stern and outraged De Gaulle moved quickly to contain the insurrection. He dispatched his Minister for Algeria, Louis Joxe, to the big naval base at Mers-el-Kebir with "full powers" to deal with the mutineers, and sent with him a new commander in chief for Algeria...
But Northern Rhodesia's black leaders want total power, and its whites are not prepared to relinquish any. As the constitutional talks in London dragged on for weeks, the white settlers boycotted them, while the black leaders attended and fumed. When Macleod finally gave both sides a look at...
Into Obscurity. When the war ended, the Special Artists themselves slipped into an obscurity that was hastened by the development of the camera as the most accurate witness of passing events. Frank Vizetelly returned to England, pursued his craft on a variety of assignments; in 1883, covering the Mahdist insurrection...