Word: ums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Tiger Song's nearly completed purge ran into unexpected opposition. Assemblyman Um Sang Sup, a member of the opposition Democratic Party, charged that Song's ruthless methods had prompted 153 officers to commit suicide rather than face courts-martial. Some, said Um, had actually taken their lives "while being questioned." The chief of staff disputed the suicide figures, but his own statistics of accomplishment were stern enough. For grafting on the job, he had fired, in the past nine months, six major generals, nine brigadiers and 1,683 other officers of field and company grade, including...
...bida became careless with the label of "Communist"-he began to use it against anyone who disagreed with him. He banished political opponents to remote areas, imprisoned an opposition editor who published an article written by Ruben Um Nyobe, Red-trained leader of the rebels. The French themselves gradually became disenchanted with M'bida. Last month to the Cameroons Paris dispatched a new high commissioner: energetic, 44-year-old Jean Ramadier, son of former Socialist Premier Paul Ramadier. Within days of Ramadier's arrival, M'bida's coalition partners ganged up on him. demanded his resignation...
Pass: (looking at watch) Yes ... um ... it's ten to. Look, I was just on the way to the bank myself; you want to walk...
...Communist, but a Presbyterian, and my desire is simply to see my country free and united. I also wish to protest against your calling our organization, the UPC [Union of the Peoples of the Cameroons], Communist, and against your calling our secretary-general, Mr. Ruben Um Nyobe, a Communist...
...legal government of the Cameroons is concerned, the UPC is a Communist-front party that aims to establish by force a Marxist "popular republic" in the Cameroons. Most of its leaders, including Um Nyobe and Félix Moumié, have been indoctrinated in Communist countries. I have a copy of a letter written some years ago by Moumié to Molotov (when he was Foreign Minister), in which Moumié admits that he is a Communist. Like all Communist-front parties, the UPC poses as a truly democratic party fighting "colonial suppression," but in fact its methods are totalitarian...