Word: rolande
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roland N. McKean, Rand Corp.: The recession looks as if it will grow somewhat more severe. Most of the things proposed by the Administration are not likely to have much immediate effect on an upturn. I would look for the country's unemployment to get somewhat worse in the next three to six months...
...years, one of Africa's busiest agitators was a dapper French Camerounese medical doctor named Felix-Roland Mou-mié. In 1955, at the age of 29, he privately wrote Vyacheslav Molotov: "If ever I succeed in taking power in my country, I assure you I will build a socialist republic." But he indignantly denied that he was a Communist, described himself as no more than a pious Presbyterian. He was a familiar of the U.N.'s corridors, arguing that only he represented the will of the French Cameroun people. He turned up in Moscow, was always welcomed...
...ROLAND WEIS Seattle...
Atrocities were not all on one side. The camisards terrorized the Catholic countryside. They rushed into battle singing psalms ("When those devils began singing their dreadful songs, we couldn't control our soldiers," complained an officer of the King). Roland kept their morale high by his Robin Hood exploits and hairbreadth escapes. In the end he was caught and executed, and finally the camisards were reduced to a remnant. But their struggle had crystallized public opinion against religious intolerance, and for 45 years (from 1715 to 1760) Calvinist Antoine Court labored to restore French Protestantism -organizing local and national...
Protestants and Catholics, threatened by the common dangers of Marxist enmity and secular indifference, are in many places drawing closer and closer together in the modern world. At last week's pilgrimage to Roland's cottage, the bankers and farmers, miners, office workers and their wives, who are carrying on the faith of the embattled camisards, renewed their sense of what is now a faraway tradition, listening to a sermon out of doors from a collapsible pulpit, and studying such Huguenot relics as a clandestine pastor's flat hat that can fold into the shape...