Word: oui
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...Caribbean Martinique, which gave Napoleon his Josephine and gives De Gaulle a loyal oui. See THE HEMISPHERE...
...September's referendum, De Gaulle had offered the Moslems 46 of the 67 seats from Algeria in the new National Assembly in Paris. He hoped that among the Moslems chosen in this month's Assembly elections he would find interlocuteurs-moderate Moslems who were neither servile beni-oui-ouis (yes men to the French) nor extremist backers of the rebel F.L.N...
...turnout at the polls, and quite another to find Moslems willing to run for office. In the first five days that the lists were open, not a single Moslem volunteered to run. At week's end only a scattered few had come forward, and most were familiar beni-oui-ouis...
...raud's conclusion: "Oui...
...negotiations. Though some Frenchmen wanted to teach Touré a lesson, others counseled the dangers of driving him to appeal to Nasser or his old Marxist masters for help. They thought that France should continue "a generous brother," only not so generous as to those who had fraternally voted oui...