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...Down with Belgium." With cries of "Independence!", "Down with Belgium!" and "Vive Ghana!", the crowd surged down Prince Baudouin Avenue, was soon joined by thousands of spectators who were just then emerging from the football stadium. The swollen mob swept through the city, upset and burned cars, stoned and mauled Europeans, pillaged shops. Bands looted public buildings and invaded mission schools, concentrating their fury on Roman Catholic more than on Protestant schools (though Kasavubu, mission-educated, studied philosophy for three years as a Catholic seminarist). Under orders from their Belgian officers, African police opened fire, and Belgian paratroopers manned...
Those compulsory yellow curtains will give the Smithies a rather jaundiced outlook, won't they? Vive Radcliffe...
...Gaulle, in French, replied: "I want him to know this: he who has just had the honor of decorating him esteems him and admires him today more than ever." De Gaulle ended the brief ceremony by crying: "Vive Churchill! Vive I'Angleterre! Vive la France...
...colons of Algeria as his failure to give a Cabinet post to their burly idol, Jacques ("Le Tombeur") Soustelle, the Parisian politician who was the brains of the Algerian settlers' revolt against the Fourth Republic. When, during his first visit to Algeria, the streets rang with the cry "Vive Soustelle!", De Gaulle in his laconic and oracular way merely said: "Soustelle will have a place at my side." But it was not until last week that Soustelle got "his place" at last. As Minister of Information, he will become De Gaulle's official spokesman-a service until recently...
...historic appeal, its author, still clad in the uniform of a brigadier general, rolled up the Champs-Elysées in an open limousine. 'As he passed, his arms flung wide in a giant V for victory, hundreds of thousands of voices kept up a continuous roar of Vive De Gaulle...