Word: binde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moved by their chairman's eloquence, the Assembly delegates voted a rousing approval: 50 to 0, with five abstentions, four of them French (two Gaullists, two Socialists). The Foreign Ministers, whose approval in effect would bind their governments, were less ready to throw in with the plan. France's Georges Bidault tried his best to be enthusiastic ("I am happy to pay you . . . the tribute: 'Salute to the Adventurers'"), but he spoke with the voice of weary experience: "Let us beware of thinking . . . that all things are possible to hearts that are sincere...
...What rules should bind or limit congressional investigating committees? It would be extremely dangerous, he said, to try to limit the power of Congress to investigate. It is a power which they must have, and must be treated properly and used properly by their long-term restraint. Congress is a coordinate branch of government which establishes its own rules and follows them. Frankly, he thinks it would be completely inappropriate to comment specifically on individuals in Congress and their methods, because presumably the Congress approves these or they would...
...liking German rearmament, but there is a ma jority for having it." Yet it was the French who had first insisted on the complexities of the European Army, as their price for letting Germany rearm. Now many Frenchmen, including Marshal Juin, were coming to see that the chains that bind Germany would also chafe France...
...Each member state must bind itself not to embark on military adventures in Europe without prior consent of all the others...
...handed in unmarked, the Germans will probably claim it as a bona fide proof that the Saar wants to be put back into Germany. Either way, the quarrel over the tiny Saar has all but broken down the bridges across the Rhine painfully built since the war to bind France and West Germany together...