Word: intransigente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next morning De Gaulle took off in a twin-jet Caravelle for Algeria to sample the sentiments of the army. Pointedly skipping major cities (where he would have had to deal with intransigent French colons), he barnstormed army units throughout Algeria, hopping from place to place by helicopter and DC...
His words were proved true in the border province of Kham, where the Reds had been longer in control. The lamaseries of Kham were looted of their treasure and their land collectivized. Nomad Khamba tribesmen were driven from the pastureland they had used for centuries. Tribal chiefs resented their loss...
But the apparently insignificant differences in wording reflected some major differences in attitudes. Of all the NATO powers, none is so eager to negotiate with Moscow as Great Britain. And as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made his stately progress from Paris to Bonn to Washington, Britain's popular press...
"No Negotiation." What touched off the talk of war was Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's joltingly tough speech rejecting Western proposals for a foreign ministers' conference on Berlin, and his calculated insult to Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, in Russia on an official peace-talking visit...
The world at large first formed its impression of Charles de Gaulle in World War II, and it was not an endearing one. As leader of Free France, he was proud, touchy, intransigent. Winston Churchill felt that De Gaulle owed his continued existence to the British, and should be grateful...