Word: toussaint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Black Jacobins, by C. L. R. James (Dial Press, $3.75), is an impassioned account of Toussaint L'Ouverture and the Santo Domingo revolution, written from the Marxist point of view by a young British Negro. It bristles with harrowing atrocities, fiery denunciations of imperialism, but manages to give a vivid account of a revolution which greatly influenced U. S. history before the Civil...
Against a background of the Haitian uprising led by Toussaint L' Ouverture in 1802 is painted the picture of a girl, who has been brought up in a French family only to learn that she is half Negress. Behind her sudden renunciation of her country and finance and her espousal of the Haitian cause is less patriotism than the admission of a type of "inferiority" too often decried in this country, though seldom recognized in France. Because it is alien to the democratic spirit and because it may easily offend many whose money supports the Federal Theatre, the choice...
Adolf Hitler put an official stamp of approval on the demonstration by sending the German Military Attaché in Prague, Colonel Toussaint. and the German Air Attaché, Major Moerike, as his emissaries. Wild shouts of "Heil" broke from the mass as Colonel Toussaint stepped forward, laid two huge evergreen wreaths inscribed "Adolf Hitler" and "The Adolf Hitler Standard" on the caskets...
Under slaveborn Dictator Toussaint L'Ouverture** Haiti had achieved independence. Napoleon challenged it, later captured Toussaint; but his successor, Christophe, kept Haiti free, went on to become its president and king, finally killed himself with a gold bullet. Haiti limits itself to Christophe's (Rex Ingram) rebellion against the French, doubles the excitement with a story of a French officer's wife (Elena Karam) whose father is Christophe's Negro...
...French, ouverture means gap. Toussaint took his surname from his ability to create gaps in the enemy lines...