:: blame the extended gestation.... ::

:: Friday, October 21, 2005 ::

France Orders Positive Spin on Colonialism

France, grappling for decades with its colonial past, has passed a law to put an upbeat spin on a painful era, making it mandatory to enshrine in textbooks the country's "positive role" in its far-flung colonies.

But the law is stirring anger among historians and passions in places like Algeria, which gained independence in a brutal conflict. Critics accuse France of trying to gild an inglorious colonial past with an "official history."

:: Jim Nichols 10/21/2005 08:48:00 PM [+] ::
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