Daddah
Americannoun
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Mauritania's pro-French Premier Si Moktar Ould Daddah promptly branded them "traitors," begged France not to judge his country by the doings of a few "wild men."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mauritania's President Moktar Ould Daddah, for instance, had been overthrown by a military coup shortly before he was supposed to leave for Nouakchott Airport to catch a plane to Khartoum.
From Time Magazine Archive
When General Charles de Gaulle came to power, Daddah was Mauritania's only lawyer, and therefore the obvious man to lead his country to self-rule under the semiautonomous government allowed by the French in 1958.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Daddah took over, Mauritania had not even a capital; as part of the old French West Africa, it had been administered from St.-Louis, across the frontier in Senegal.
From Time Magazine Archive
"That's what Daddah says when he wants me to work in my garden," said Mary Jane.
From Mary Jane—Her Visit by Judson, Clara Ingram
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