Word: cabinets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four days before Ike's arrival, as Cabinet members and top military brass of 15 nations descended on Paris, the annual NATO Council meeting had opened. The setting was glossier and glassier than ever before. To replace the sagging "temporary" prefab it has occupied since 1952, NATO now inhabits a six-story, A-shaped (for "Atlantic") building containing $10 million worth of Danish and Belgian furniture, German and Dutch electronics devices, Italian marble, British kitchen equipment, U.S. airconditioning, and (alas) a French telephone system. But as if to prove Parkinson's law of "plans and plants,"* the first...
...bishops of France signed a statement pleading with the government not to touch the autonomy of the parochial schools, and even the Freemasons broke precedent by plunging into the controversy. But of all the arguments that flew over France, few were more prolonged than the one in the Cabinet itself...
...refused even to tolerate crucifixes and robes. Enraged, Culture Minister André Malraux turned on Boulloche, snapped: "Neutralization in teaching does not exist." At one point, De Gaulle firmly reminded his quarreling ministers, "We are no longer under the Fourth Republic," warned them that an impasse in the Cabinet could sweep it out of office. To Boulloche he said, "I understand your conscience but think also of the Fifth Republic and the regime." Finally, fearing that Boulloche's resignation might lose De Gaulle the support of the left on which he depends for his Algerian negotiations, De Gaulle told...
...pupils, no matter what their "origin, belief or opinion." The church was stunned. At week's end, quailing at the prospect of a debate packed with so much emotion, Deputies on both sides began calling on De Gaulle for his personal arbitration. But the general, having seen his Cabinet dangerously split for the first time, chose silence...
...other coalition parties, Jóvito Villalba of the Democratic Republican Union (U.R.D.) and Rafael Caldera of the Social Christian COPEI, reaffirmed the pact with such emphasis that they unconsciously revealed the strains within it. Most of the strains come from the division among the parties of Cabinet posts, state governorships and autonomous state institutes, e.g., social security. Villalba's U.R.D., for example, complained loudly that the A.D. had taken the lion's share and that the U.R.D. deserved the governorship of the federal district, including Caracas, because in the election it won three times more votes there...