Word: auriolism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...simply touched off a fresh storm to the south, in the new village of Oradour. The villagers lowered their tricolor, removed from its place of honor the Croix de Guerre awarded by the government to mark Oradour's ordeal, dispatched an irate protest to President Vincent Auriol: "Oradour, which until now recalled Nazi brutality, will in the future be remembered as a symbol of unpunished crime...
Over Marignarie, France, Mrs. Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of France's President Auriol. piloted a jet Mistral 76 to a new women's world speed record of 534.92 m.p.h., bettering her own former record of 508.09 m.p.h., set last year...
When the Faure cabinet fell last February, Pinay trotted off as usual to the Gare de Lyon. He was on the way back from St. Chamond a few days later when a messenger clambered into his compartment at Dijon with President Auriol's invitation to take a fling at forming a government. He had the brashness...
...President of France, the usually equable Vincent Auriol, was almost in tears. "Messieurs, les Ambassadeurs," he cried, before a French audience gathered last week for the opening of the Rhone Valley's Donzere-Mondragon dam, built with the help of $33 million from the U.S. Addressing himself directly to the assembled foreign diplomatic corps, which included the U.S.'s James C. Dunn, Auriol launched into an emotional refutation of recent U.S. criticism of France...
...Auriol's tears, trickling into the muddy current of French opinion, were one of a number of streams which together seemed last week to be washing at the foundation of European unity against Communist aggression. Foremost were Speaker Edouard Herriot's declared opposition to the European Defense Community and Premier Antoine Pinay's tacit approval of Herriot's position (he knew what Herriot was going to say and did nothing to change it). After all, the whole idea of EDC was a cumbersome attempt to quiet French fears of German rearmament; now it looked...