Amidst it all, the French West Indies—Martinique, Guadeloupe and their islet dependencies—glide ever closer to full membership in Charles de Gaulle’s French Community. Sipping white rum and ...

But the French West Indies — Martinique, Guadeloupe, and Guadeloupe’s six dependencies — seem as placid as the emerald waters that lap their pearl-white beaches. In the westernmost backwater ...

THERE are explosive possibilities in the French West Indies. For three years the predominantly Negro populations of Martinique and Guadeloupe have been stirring restlessly under the heavy hand of ...