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Each of the three French territories (see map) has its home-grown strife and problems. But in the 20th century, history, geography and politics have converged to give their stirrings a singleness of purpose. Of the world's 53 million Arabs, virtually all have received their independence in the past generation except the 20 million in French (and Spanish) North Africa. Of the world's 315 million Moslems, few outside the Iron Curtain remain "dependent peoples"; those few are mostly in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. Fanned by France's retreat in Indo-China, by Britain...
...clock one morning last week, France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France drove through deserted Parisian streets to Le Bourget Airport. He was bound for another trouble spot-Tunis, the capital of strife-torn Tunisia. Having made a "cruel" peace in Indo-China because French colonialism had missed its opportunity there, he was determined that France should not make the same mistake in North Africa...
...budget from roughly $500,000 to $1,100,000. Union has come a long way from that December day in 1836 when the seminary first opened its doors to 13 students who wanted, as the preamble to Union's charter put it, "to live free from party strife, and to stand aloof from all the extremes of doctrinal speculation, practical radicalism, and ecclesiastical domination...
Such racial amiability, rare in the Rhodesias, was an outward and visible sign of the racial partnership that Britain hopes will one day characterize all British Africa. But it could not disguise the inward spiritual conflict that threatens Rhodesia with chronic black-white strife. Lyttelton had come to make his own reading of that conflict. Its heart is the growing fear of a white minority surrounded by black men who no longer are satisfied to be seen and not heard...
...reference to the Civil War, Beer explained, "was a wild misstatement." He stated that it was "acceptable only if one forgets the revival of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, the presidential campaign of 1928, and the industrial strife not far short of class war which developed during the New Deal period...