Word: madagascars
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With the end of France's colonial empire, the Foreign Legion seems obsolete. Some units may stay in Saharan outposts until 1965; others have already been sent off to French Somaliland and Madagascar...
...describe this educational exhibit to you in the confidential tones most appropriate for information of this nature). I refer, ladies and gentlemen, to the biological, yes, the anatomical wonder of the age: Jo Jo, the Dog-Faced Boy from deep in the heart of the jungles of Madagascar . . . He crawls on his belly like a reptile...
...Lebanon. Syria. Indo-China, Madagascar, Tunisia, Morocco, Suez. Algeria ?and has either lost each war or felt cheated of complete victory. With a long record of involvement in politics, the French army played a part in the overthrow of each of the republics preceding De Gaulle's Fifth?except for the Third, which was destroyed not by the French but by Hitler's army...
...UILENBERG Tananarive, Madagascar...
...colonies, Madagascar seemed to have had the most fun with the colonials. In one sculpture, four small natives are seen carrying a litter on which a French official sits calmly reading; the colonial stiff upper lip has never been done better. Another artist portrays an official's wife in a way that Madame would never have imagined herself. She is shown staring vacuously from under a parasol-the eternal Mrs. Blankbrain herself...