Word: auriolism
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Last week at Paris' Orly Airfield, some 500,000 spectators peered into blue skies and clutched their ears as U.S. and British jet fighters screeched past in France's National Air Fete. President of the Republic Vincent Auriol sat pleasantly and peacefully in his box, a study in pearl grey. Then, suddenly, a little man dressed all in white, wearing a white baseball cap and carrying two paddles walked on to the field. It was Choreographer Lifar...
...from a distance, the dust cloud kicked up by the prancing pinwheels looked like a small grey ball, growing darker and darker. Then at the President's box, the blue uniforms of his honor guard began to turn a dusty white. Suddenly, as the helicopters changed direction, M. Auriol himself could be dimly seen making violent gestures-that were clearly not applause...
...Britons saw a sign of war in the arrival last week of rotund, 65-year-old Vincent Auriol. The tensions of an uneasy peace stressed anew the importance of the 46-year-old Entente Cordiale between France and Britain. The beaming
French President and his wife were warmly welcomed and royally entertained. The people turned out in throngs. Auriol, responding to cheers, placed his right hand over his heart and symbolically flung it to the people. They loved...
Here was the old British dilemma: How to strengthen the concept of "Western community" without weakening the reality of Commonwealth? Auriol in a speech to Parliament said that the answer was a close "association of the military, economic and diplomatic policies ... of all those nations which . . . are ready to take part in the real organization of collective security...