Word: niel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...response to the hillmen's attack, Major Gray sent several truckloads of troops up to reinforce the garrison, but they were stopped by mines-the first land mines ever used in battle in the Sultanate. At this point the Sultan consulted his Foreign Minister, a hulking Scot named Niel Innes who used to command the Khartoum jail, and called for London's help...
...abusive, arrogant, mocking. Clearly intending to bring down the La-niel government, he complained of Bi-dault's "refusal or evasion of negotiations" with the Viet Minh itself, taunted him with the cost to France in men and money of a "colonial war." He charged that the Bao Dai government had no popular support. He claimed that the Communists already controlled three-quarters of Viet Nam, half of Laos, a smaller but increasing part of Cambodia. As for Dienbienphu, "Who can deny that the defense of Dienbienphu was in the main carried out not by the French...
Finally the pressure of alarmed French residents in Morocco and their friends in France became so great that Premier La-niel made his move. Last week, after considering a number of generals, diplomats, politicians and hacks, the government picked a civilian, Career Diplomat Francis Lacoste, 48, to be the eleventh Resident General since Morocco became a French protectorate...
Persons who can both dance and act are needed by the Club, which has opened trials to everyone in the colleges and community, male and female. Thomas N. Billings '52 and F. J. O'Niel '53 will respectively produce and direct the show, which will appear about the middle of March...