Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the retreating colonial powers, the French have clung longest to the savage techniques of imperialism's unhappy past. In 1945, when Algerians killed some 100 French in a local uprising in the Constantine area, the French retaliated by bombing and strafing towns, killed some 20,000 Algerians before calling a halt; in 1946 French warships and artillery bombarded Haiphong, killing some 10,000 Vietnamese; in 1947 the French wiped out entire villages in putting down a revolt in Madagascar, killing some 40,000 men, women and children...
...start toward the ancient dream of Arab brotherhood since Saladin united his Saracen hosts against the Crusaders in 1174. In Syria's Damascus the celebration was wilder. Bedouins whirled through the Arab sword dance. Soviet-made helicopters swooped overhead, 50,000 citizens paraded with their "Arab Unity" banners past the Parliament. Dark-suited legislators, who had just voted themselves and aging President Kuwatly out of jobs, produced guns from somewhere and blazed away into the sky in celebration...
...Anne Frank did, right up to the end. Said a survivor: "I can still see her standing by the door, watching a group of naked young gypsy girls being shoved along to the crematory. Anne watched them, weeping. And she also wept when we filed past Hungarian children waiting, twelve hours naked under the rain, for their turn to enter the gas chamber. Anne cried: 'Look at their eyes!' She wept when most of us had no tears left...
...than 86% of Poland's eligible voters had participated, and of those who did, 97% deferred to the top-seeded National Front candidates. The vote was less a vote of confidence in Gomulka's future than a recognition that however drafty his halfway house to independence, the past had been worse...
...Celebes area. Warouw sought out Sukarno in Japan's state guest house. Warouw's account of the interview (as relayed by Sumual): "I told him to get rid of the Reds or quit, himself. He reproached me for these words, and asked if I had forgotten our past comradeship. I reminded him I once saved his life in Surabaya during the war against the Dutch, but told him: 'You must make a decision one way or the other. This is the point of no return.' He begged me for more time; I told...