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Word: withe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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No injections of Western capital, however massive, will have any lasting effect unless their recipients impose upon themselves political and economic discipline. And in Asia, Africa and Latin America there is still a painful dearth of leaders with the courage or wisdom to try to impress upon their people that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: The First Battle | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Malraux also decreed: let there be circuses-and staged the most dazzling Bastille Day celebration France had ever seen. In fact, never since Napoleon had government and culture so complemented each other. When Giraudoux's Electre opened, Paris critics were officially reminded that a French head of state has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Grand March | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

The Algerian rebels last week answered Charles de Gaulle's proposal for cease-fire talks (TIME, Nov. 23) with a yes that was meant to be taken as no.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dusty Answer | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

Summoning newsmen to a dingy press office on Tunis' Rue des Entrepreneurs, Rebel Press Spokesman Ahmed Boumendjel announced that his "government" was agreeable to negotiations with France "to discuss the conditions and applications" of the self-determination vote that De Gaulle has promised Algeria. The rebels even named their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dusty Answer | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

De Gaulle, on tour in Alsace, rejected the rebel proposal with a curt aside in a speech, declaring that his offer had been directed "to those who fight, not those who are hors de combat.''

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dusty Answer | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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