Word: revolted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recurring pattern of bloody revolt in French colonies from Indo-China to North Africa has sometimes suggested that France, like her Bourbon kings, has "learned nothing and forgotten nothing." Last week, as evidence to the contrary, France acted to forestall future Algerias, by launching a new deal in "Black Africa"-the little-known French domain that sprawls all the way from below the Equator to the Sahara. See FOREIGN NEWS, Timely Token...
...Foreign Minister, who was fretting about what the U.N. would do with the troublesome Algerian problem. "What matters to me," snapped Mollet, "is not the United Nations but the United States." To hard-headed Guy Mollet it seemed self-evident that the treatment given the two-year-old Algerian revolt in the glass palace on the East River would be largely determined along the banks of the Potomac...
...nearly 19 million people who speak 120 languages; and 2) French Equatorial Africa, whose four provinces stretch from Libya in the north to the Atlantic Ocean in the south, produce a major share of the world's plywood. Unlike Madagascar, whose 4,800,000 inhabitants launched a bloody revolt against France in 1947, Black Africa has just begun to emerge from Stone Age politics...
...other newcomer to the community, Mihaly, had had no trouble with authorities before the revolt broke. He had been a member of the Law faculty of the University of Budapest, holding a position approximately equivalent to an assistant professor of International Law. He hopes to gain a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship so that he can attend the Law School in the fall...
...post at the University of Budapest, he joined the revolt by helping to organize students at the law school. "The best fighters in the struggle were the students," he asserted yesterday. He helped to make a fighting force out of law students and younger boys who volunteered their services. "Such young people were our troops," he said...