Word: tricolors
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...dreaded list of things to come. All French public servants, technicians and army units would leave within three months. Financial aid would cease, and Guinea's exports (coffee, bananas, bauxite) would be subject to the same stiff tariffs as those of other foreign countries. As the French tricolor vanished from the land, Touré began to hope that, having slammed the door, he would not find it irrevocably locked behind him. He hailed France as "a friend and generous brother," called for economic negotiations. Though some Frenchmen wanted to teach Touré a lesson, others counseled the dangers...
...constitution, incorporating strong executive powers demanded by De Gaulle and offering the overseas areas partnership under the Tricolor or independence from the mother country, was expected to have rough going in one or two territories...
...Gaulle has come to the Place de la Republique to present officially to the French people the proposed new constitution that would make him the super-President of the Fifth Republic. The general stands on a crimson dais before a 150-ft. gilded "V" draped in the French Tricolor...
...intricately carved masks and grass skirts threw themselves at the feet of a lofty figure clad in the suntans of a French brigadier general. On the edge of a throng that had been pouring into the city since dawn, three ebony maidens displayed bare breasts painted in the French tricolor blue, white and red. With evident delight at the warmth of his welcome, Charles de Gaulle threw his arms wide in a V-for-Victory sign and cried: "Eh bien, eh bien! The community is made...
...holy horror of the French; they would not even eat from a plate a Frenchman had touched. When they were brought to battle, they presented "inert masses" to the French artillery until the gunners themselves stopped, aghast at their slaughter. It had become a war of icon and tricolor. Ségur records his disillusion: "It was no longer a war of kings we were fighting, but a class war, a party war, a religious war, a national war-all sorts of wars rolled into...