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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like other plausible-sounding French proposals. Gaillard's pact met many problems but not the crucial one, the status of Algeria. Tunisia and Morocco need help to keep their unbalanced economies viable, and in the past have shown willingness to accept that aid from France. But because of their citizens' sympathy for the Algerian rebels, Tunisia and Morocco have been moving away from, not toward, France. It was hard to see how that trend could be reversed by the offer of a pact which would, in effect, force both governments to ratify permanent French control of Algeria. Speaking...
...listening for late returns on the balloting as 130 million eligible voters went to the polls this week. Students of the tides of power were more interested in Pravda's pre-election compilations of how many election districts nominated various Kremlin leaders as their candidates. In the past Stalin's name had led all the rest. 1958's score for Presidium members...
...settlers, the News cheerfully observed, ''would have sold their British heritage for a bottle of rum." Now, the editorial continued, "H.M.S. Bermuda comes to wave the Union Jack at us, but even that is little more than a symbol of has-beens and a voice from the past. For good or ill, Bermuda's face is turned westward. To America she looks for protection, to her tourists for her livelihood." New British immigrants (Noel Coward, for instance) are likely to be greeted as nothing but tax dodgers. The phrase "Limey, go home" is not a slur...
...went into the final week of the campaign, a growing awareness of the realities confronting the new state-too many people and too little income (e.g., 1,382 people per sq. mi. in Barbados have a per-capita income of $239 a year)-dampened fiery nationalist expectations of years past. Observers predicted only a 40-60% turnout of eligible voters, and the Jamaica Times called the campaign "dreary." Admitted Probable Prime Minister Adams: "The federal government is going to be weak with a chicken-feed budget...
Still she wrote, and lavishly entertained unprejudiced friends from the great world, including past and future Viceroys of India, Lords Lytton (Novelist Bulwer-Lytton's son) and Curzon. Troubles piled up. When she offended the Italians with a bitterly realistic story, her pony cart was shot at. She was furious: the noise might have made her ponies nervous. The Italians imposed a muzzling order against all dogs; she spent a night with her beloved pooches in a hackney carriage rather than see their freedom being curtailed...