Word: m
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French thought they had found the ideal man last May when they picked André-Marie M'bida, 40, to serve as first Premier of the semiautonomous French Cameroons, the California-sized territory near the equator on Africa's west coast. His forehead bears a blue tribal tattoo; he is a Roman Catholic; and like the French themselves, he does not want to rush into independence before the 3,300,000 African inhabitants are prepared for it. When M'bida wanted to get tough with Communist-led rebels who were terrorizing parts of the country...
...M'bida became careless with the label of "Communist"-he began to use it against anyone who disagreed with him. He banished political opponents to remote areas, imprisoned an opposition editor who published an article written by Ruben Um Nyobe, Red-trained leader of the rebels. The French themselves gradually became disenchanted with M'bida. Last month to the Cameroons Paris dispatched a new high commissioner: energetic, 44-year-old Jean Ramadier, son of former Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier. Within days of Ramadier's arrival, M'bida's coalition partners ganged up on him. demanded...
There, in words Frenchmen hardly expect to hear these days, M'bida, the African, complained that Ramadier. the Frenchman, was trying to propel the Cameroons toward independence too rapidly. And with one of those sideswipes for which he had become notorious. M'bida declared: "I regret that in disavowing me, Mr. Ramadier furnished support-which I would like to believe was involuntary-to the agents of the Soviet Union...
...best M'bida could manage was a kind of double knockout. Gérard Jaquet, Minister for France Overseas, transferred Ramadier to another post, but gave M'bida no help at all. The Premier dejectedly flew back to the Cameroons' capital of Yaounde, where, realizing that he faced certain defeat in Parliament, he resigned. As successor, the French chose Amadou Ahidjo, 33, who had served as Vice Premier and Interior Minister in M'bida's government. Ahidjo announced his policy: independence (but without a timetable), union of the British and French Cameroons, cooperation with France...
Watering the Stock. With public and Parliament clamoring for the truth, Nehru reluctantly appointed a Bombay judge to make a special inquiry. Testimony brought out that Krishnamachari's principal aide, finance secretary H. M. Patel, had ordered the corporation's officers to carry out the deal and that its direct result was to save the financial position of Promoter Mundhra. a boy-wonder financier who began as a light-bulb salesman, pyramided his holdings by fast deals and stock juggling into a $10 million empire...