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...Madagascar. A shocked French Assembly last week heard details of revolt in Madagascar, the big, beautiful island off Africa's southeast coast. Paris estimated that in March and April, at least, 180 Frenchmen and 1,000 pro-French natives have been butchered by white-turbaned, spear-waving extremists of the Malagasy Renovation Party (M.D.R.M.). Despite French airborne reinforcements, the attacks still continued. Deputy Jules-Mathieu Castellani, a teak-faced Madagascar planter, recounted gruesome tortures...
...Pierre Découzon, a venerable Frenchman who had been in Madagascar for 45 years . . . was buried alive after his children had been killed before his eyes. . . . Jules Saury . . . was tortured, and, while still alive, cut to pieces by the native surgeon whom he considered his friend. The pieces were then thrown to the dogs in front of other members of his family...
Communist deputies were the only ones who applauded (feebly) when Madagascar M.D.R.M. Deputy Joseph Raseta blamed low wages, French repression, and the "savagery" of Senegalese troops for what was going on in Madagascar...
Kidd (Charles Laughton) buries a treasure chest, sails a King's ship into Madagascar waters, knocks off a number of chiseling colleagues, and at long last gets the halter while young lovers Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton make for the altar. All this and more is accomplished without teeth-clenched daggers, plank-walkings, or hoistings of the Jolly Roger. But this new version has not enough energy and inventiveness to take the place of the old, dependable pirate-movie clich...
Died. Colonel Deneys Reitz, 62, bald, bold, Boer-born High Commissioner for South Africa, autobiographer (Commando, Trekking On); in London. Afrikaner Reitz escaped from the British to Madagascar after the Boer War, returned from exile at the invitation of his good friend Jan Smuts, fought with the Royal Scots Fusiliers in World War I, became omnipresent in South African public life...