Word: chaban
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle brusquely by surname alone, prefaced it respectfully with the title "General." But this was not all. Abandoning a longtime boycott on social affairs attended by De Gaulle, eight Communist Deputies showed up at a glittering reception given in the general's honor by National Assembly President Jacques Chaban-Delmas, and maneuvered through the crowd until they managed to place themselves directly in De Gaulle's path. Just as they were about to meet face to face, suave Jacques Chaban-Delmas, responding to advance warnings from Socialists, deftly steered the shortsighted general off in another direction...
...loss of his Assembly seat in November by polling more than four times as many votes for mayor as the U.N.R. In Lyon, Jacques Soustelle, the dynamic organizer of the U.N.R., ran a poor third after Radical Socialists and Communists. The one big U.N.R. victor was Jacques Chaban-Delmas, president of the National Assembly, who could point to an outstanding twelve-year record as mayor of Bordeaux...
...Apparatus. Returning to Paris, Delbecque wangled an assignment on the staff of Defense Minister Jacques Chaban Delmas. Ostensibly, his job was psychological warfare in Algeria. In fact, his purpose was to establish a disciplined revolutionary apparatus in Algeria...
...France unleashed this savage attack on Tunisian civilians? By French report, several reconnaissance aircraft had been fired upon recently by machine guns emplaced in the village outskirts, and so, in the chilly words of France's Defense Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas: "Our aviators did no more than exercise the right of legitimate defense against antiaircraft elements operating from Tunisia with an impunity that was obviously unacceptable." A government spokesman added that he hoped "the Tunisian government would not seek to exaggerate the significance of the incident." Newsmen, stumbling through the rubble and counting the bodies laid out in long...
France planned to up its defense budget by 20%. Said Deputy Jacques Chaban-Delmas: "Within one year our ground forces will be raised to 25 divisions, supported by a tactical air force of 2,500 planes to be furnished by the U.S. In two years'time we expect to have 35 divisions...