Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propaganda contest called the cold war, the U.S. piled up one of its biggest weekly scores so far. Capturing men's imaginations round the world, and replying persuasively to Russia's Sputniks, the U.S. Navy's atomic submarine Nautilus completed a historic transpolar voyage under the vast Arctic ice pack, fulfilling in a 20th century way the centuries-old dream of a northern passage from ocean to ocean (see Armed Forces). And in the arena of diplomacy, the U.S. scored high when Nikita Khrushchev, tangled in his own diplomatic web, rejected a U.N. summit meeting...
...last twelve years, during which the whims of the Assembly had toppled 25 governments, proved, said he, that Articles 14 and 21 are "indispensable." Then De Gaulle moved on to a subject the committee was anxious to hear more about-the question of the territories overseas, including the vast areas of French West Africa (see next page), French Equatorial Africa and Madagascar. For these, De Gaulle offered three choices: 1) status quo,as semi-autonomous territories; 2) integration as departments of France; or 3) some form of federation with France, with increased self-government...
...Risks & Perils." As on the powers of the presidency, De Gaulle was firm to the point of bluntness. He had no rigid conception of what the colonial federation should be, nor was he against allowing the federation to form alliances with other African states in "a vast community of free peoples." As he put it, "the work that has been started is immense and new: to build an ensemble on the basis of spontaneous acceptance [by France itself] and the overseas territories . . . of an association adapted to the realities of the modern world...
...France clings tenaciously, even though much of the land is still poor and only 50,000 Frenchmen live there. Not for years will the $550 million poured in since 1948 begin to pay off-but there are riches to be found, and France seems determined not to let this vast remnant of its empire go by default, or to make the same mistakes that led to Algeria...
...Touré's Guinea have inspired much confidence so far. Though Senegal was the first territory to be colonized, its economy still depends mostly on peanuts-a crop that gradually exhausts the soil. Mauritania, which has only four towns of 3,000 people or more, is a vast desert whose rich deposits of iron and copper ore are still to be exploited. The Upper Volta has as many livestock as people, and its workers must migrate from the territory each year to find jobs. Niger, the largest territory, and Dahomey, the smallest, barely manage to survive...