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...Minister to France in the 17905, Monroe suffered his first and greatest setback: his pro-French views tangled with the Administration's policy of neutrality between France and Britain, and President Washington angrily ordered him recalled...
Political parties: 1. Voters: 80%. Popular, ultra-conservative Francois Tombalbaye rules country as President, Premier, Minister of Defense and Justice, head of only political party. Strongly pro-French...
...private French capital flooding into Ivory Coast; the heavily laden coffee craft steaming out of Abidjan's harbor symbolize the preferential trade agreements that Paris renews year after year. France hands out $50 million in annual subsidies and other aid to help keep the little republic solvent-and pro-French. But Houphouet-Boigny needs little wooing, for he has been in love with France for years. He and his chic. Dior-dressed wife, Marie-Therese, 31, still keep a Paris apartment for holidays...
...Northern Catholic, then, to whom the U.S. decided to tie the survival of predominantly Buddhist South Vietnam. This in a region whose natives traditionally considered Northerners foreign and suspected Catholics of being pro-French. This also at a time when a majority of the population quite openly sympathized with the communist Viet Minh guerrillas who had been leaders of the Independence movement. It was absolutely necessary for Western strategy to create some kind of popular front to challenge the Communists at the general elections which the Geneva Treaty set for 1956 to unify the country. The general elections were never...
What led to the Paris riots was a vicious spiral of provocation and retaliation. In late August, F.L.N. terrorists in France launched a wave of attacks on pro-French Moslems and French police that in seven weeks killed eleven cops and 98 Algerians. As a countermeasure the government clamped a 7 p.m. curfew on the Algerian cafes, where F.L.N. leaders hang out. Algerians also were "strongly advised" to be off the streets by 8:30-and soon found that police, with newly issued bulletproof vests and three-foot staves for patrol duty, wasted no time repeating the advice to those...