Word: pr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Where to Stop. In Bourguiba, France had no lackey, but what might be better: a Moslem moderate who went to school in France, married a French girl, and wants to work with the French. There was no sign that the French colons appreciated their good fortune. The diehard Présence Française called on all European settlers (250,000 in a nation of 3,300,000) "to unite to prevent the application of all measures interfering with their dignity, their persons or their wealth...
Speakers loudly condemned Resident General Pierre Boyer de la Tour, who had summarily deported the Tunisian leader of the diehard Prèsence Franéaise for his defiant utterances. Cried Dr. Georges Causse, head of the Moroccan Présence Française: "Tunisia is being sold out by a gang of rascals and traitors ... If France abandons us, the love we have for her will turn to hatred. We will fight by all means in our power, and we will come out into the streets even if it means being killed." Down From The Hills. Impatient Arab nationalists...
Present size of House--412 Vacancies for freshmen--129. Types of rooms available--singles, none; doubles, seven; triples, 23; quadruples, eight; quintuples, two, Price range per man pr term--doubles, $130-$275; triples, $150-205; quadruples, $115-$170; quintuples...
...Bear Speaks. Under the préalable rule, only one speech is allowed each side before the vote. For this speech EDC's foes shrewdly called on ailing old Edouard Herriot, honorary President of the Assembly, who for years has appealed more to French emotions than to French intelligence. Bowed under the weight of his 82 years and long illness, he was too feeble to rise and mount the rostrum, but from his bench the "old bear" spoke theatrically in his deep voice. "I have read the documents with anguish," he rumbled. "No one can say that Great Britain...
...voting began. Deliberately, Mendès-France and his Cabinet abstained. When it was over, Assembly President Le Troquer, who had lost an arm to the Germans in World War I, announced: "By 319 votes against 264, the National Assembly adopts the question préalable. In consequence, ratification of the European Defense Community Treaty is rejected...