Word: madagascar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began to see Mohammed's face in the full moon. Imams refused to say prayers in Cousin Moulay Arafa's name. The French did their best to discredit Mohammed, releasing a flood of stories of alleged collaboration with the Nazis, and hustled him even farther away, to Madagascar. Back in Morocco, anger swelled, and terrorism began. Trains were derailed, warehouses fired, boycotts of French goods organized. It became virtually a death sentence for an Arab to be caught smoking a French cigarette...
...supplied him with a timely token of France's good intentions in Africa. In a predawn ballot that suggested that the lessons of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria had finally penetrated the French consciousness, the Deputies voted to give a limited degree of self-rule to the island of Madagascar and twelve provinces of "Black Africa...
...heart of the Sahara, are inhabited by nearly 19 million people who speak 120 languages; and 2) French Equatorial Africa, whose four provinces stretch from Libya in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the south, produce a major share of the world's plywood. Unlike Madagascar, whose 4,800,000 inhabitants launched a bloody revolt against France in 1947, Black Africa has just begun to emerge from Stone Age politics...
Three months ago, thanks to the efforts of the two ministers, the territorial assemblies of the provinces of Black Africa and Madagascar were for the first time elected by universal suffrage. Last week's vote granted these assemblies real if limited powers over local affairs. (Control of defense, foreign policy, justice and higher education was kept by the French government.) And while the provincial governors will still be appointed by France, each governor will hereafter be obliged to clear his decisions on local affairs with a "council of government," or cabinet, whose members will be elected by the local...
Morocco's Sultan ben Youssef, Mohammed V, only 31 months ago exiled by the French to remote Madagascar, was being courted like a king. At Rabat airport last week, as he stepped aboard an Iberia Super-Constellation for a visit to Spain, a band played the Marseillaise, and French High Commissioner Andre Louis Dubois was at his side to remind him that Morocco owed its new "independence within interdependence" to France. Hours later in Madrid, Dictator Franco and a phalanx of bemedaled Falangists roared an ovation to show that they also had something to give the Sultan...