Word: north
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning of the third day out, the fleet dropped anchor in the Bay of Tunis, and Ike and his party buzzed by helicopter to the Tunis suburb of La Marsa, just north of the old Punic ruins of Carthage. There, on a small asphalt lot, 500 yards from the presidential summer and guest palace Dar es Saada ("House of Happiness"), Ike shook hands with Tunisia's stubby, vigorous President Habib Bourguiba. In his warm words of welcome, Bourguiba put in a plug for anticolonialism. "This visit," said he, "will bring high hope and promise to the peoples of Africa...
...Presidents then drove to the nearby American cemetery, past crowds of women who hailed Ike with a birdlike warbling that sounded like you-you-you. Ike laid a red, white and blue wreath, stood bareheaded for a long two minutes in tribute to the dead of his former North Africa command. Then he drove on past big, shouting crowds to the airport, and four hours after he landed in Tunisia, was steaming toward Toulon...
...good part of his nine-hour train trip north to Paris, Ike was closeted with Secretary of State Christian Herter, who had come down from Paris to meet him and brief him on NATO matters. At Paris, about 500 people jostled into the Lyon Station at 10:30 p.m. to watch as Eisenhower and President de Gaulle shook hands. It was a businesslike welcome, with little pomp, and after they chatted for a few moments the two men parted for the night. It was late, and ahead for Ike were three hard days of talks with other Western leaders, brief...
...White Citizens' Councils of America. Inside a black-bordered box were listed 74 "organizations appearing in House and Senate committee records as favoring 'civil rights' and anti-South force legislation during 1957 and 1959." Among them: Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America, American Veterans Committee, Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, N.A.A.C.P., Catholic Interracial Council, the Protestant Episcopal Church, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, the Methodist Church, United Automobile Workers, and Young Women's Christian Association...
...urgent as the rumble of talking drums, the spirit of self-rule swept across Africa. The big white-dominated lands of southern Africa would soon look north on a solid girdle of independent black states stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. In some parts of Middle Africa, colonialism was retreating in good order, leaving a promise, or at least hope, of peace in the transition to government by black men. In others, the process was jerky, confused and reluctant...