Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Olive Branch. All along the route Arabs, Berbers, Negroes from the South Sahara turned out with such enthusiasm to show French allegiance that tears rolled down the Premier's cheeks. At Sousse, with the Foreign Legion, cavalry and rifle regiments lined up in the square, M. Daladier caught the frenzy of the crowd, stepped out of the official procession and went through the square shaking hands with men, patting the heads of children. At Sfax the Caid (Mayor), whose grandfather fought against the invading French 57 years ago, presented M. Daladier with a silver olive branch symbolic of "union...
...Cruiser Foch, M. Daladier proceeded to Algiers, where Arab chieftains and Zouave and Spahi detachments accompanied him to a monument for Algerian War dead. Here M. Daladier summed up the impressions of his trip: "The Colonials are French-they will stay French...
...manifestation of Italian ill will. Special Correspondent Jérôme Tharaud of the Paris-Soir arrived at Genoa by plane en route to Djibouti. Even though he had an Italian visa, the Fascist police interrupted his voyage, escorted him back to the French frontier. Reason: Italy claimed M. Tharaud had written articles uncomplimentary to Italian soldiers in Spain...
Asked in Algiers if he planned reprisals against Italian newspaper men in France for the Tharaud expulsion, M. Daladier cracked back: "France is a free country. There will be no reprisals. I know how unhappy they [Italian journalists] would be back in Italy...
...Foster," he said, "I'm your man. I'm all shot. . . ." May dashed out, hailed the cops, grabbed a short-wave microphone and ran back in to interview his captive before police could haul him away...