Word: yanaon
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...huffing, puffing and pleading did not blow the colonial walls down, armed Indian nationalists (often Communist-led) began to stir up revolts in the enclaves, and Nehru gave their activity the kind of silence that implies approval. France let three of its tiny colonies go (Chandernagor, Mahe and Yanaon), and last week the French Foreign Office let it be known that the last two, Pondicherry and Karikal, would be ceded to India within "the next few weeks." These small faraway colonies were no longer of strategic, economic or sentimental importance to France (TIME, April...
...Pondichéry, Chandernagor, Karikal, Mahe and Yanaon, all but Mabé on India's east coast...
...Another colonial power, France, announced that the 203 square miles on India's east coast which she still rules will be organized as the five free cities of Pondichery, Karikal, Chander-nagore, Mahe and Yanaon, with locally elected governments, within the French union...
...Governor Louis Bouvin of the five minuscule colonies of French India (Pondichéry, Karikal, Chandernagor, Mahé, Yanaon; total pop. 300,353) declared their loyalty to De Gaulle...
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