Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buoyed by the astonishing Moslem turnout (nearly 3,000,000) and the whopping 96% yes vote for his new constitution in 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...
...reluctance of the Moslems was partly based on fear of the F.L.N., which could not make good on its death threats against the 3,000,000 Moslems who voted in the referendum, but could easily pick off the few that ran for office. Besides, many moderate Moslems seemed to feel that, if De Gaulle's government was eventually going to deal with the F.L.N., they should not appear as candidates in an election that the F.L.N. had condemned as "null and void...
...three Council members appointed two weeks ago as a committee to investigate the charges of "illegal procedure" and corrupt election practices involved in the NSA referendum reported that they acknowledged "infractions in some of the Houses, but felt that the sum total was not enough to warrant a College-wide re-vote...
...case of Dudley House, the committee said, "the infractions are serious enough to warrant that the ballots be declared invalid." Thus, the final vote of the referendum was 823 for and 891 against Harvard's membership...
Included in the report on the NSA referendum was a revised list of election rules pertaining to future elections. One Council member declared, "I almost suspect that the election rules were used in the report to cover up other matters." The committee, he said, "has contradicted its original purpose, and there is too much glossing over reality...