Word: defender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having had twelve of them since the 1789 Revolution, the French should be experts at writing constitutions, but they still have to produce one that really works for long. Last week, with his customary lofty dignity, Premier Charles de Gaulle swept into the Palais Royal to defend his own proposed constitution before a special 39-man parliamentary committee set up to examine it. De Gaulle was out to solve two major problems that have at times virtually paralyzed his country-the chaos of a supreme but irresponsible Parliament, and the long struggle to find some permanent policy for France...
...Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.50), Fellow Jesuit Kurt Becker describes how Father Phillips, former rector of Shanghai's Church of Christ the King, spent three years (1953-56) in Shanghai cells, for the most part squatting in one position all day, forbidden to speak a word. By refusing to defend himself against any charge ("I know that I am here only because I am a Catholic priest, sir"), he finally thwarted his jailors' attempts to make him "confess...
...formed by a scarred desk and a well-worn couch. Behind the desk, Jack is barricaded; the couch supports a "panel" of regular or irregular conversationalists. Says Paar: "The show is nothing. Just me and people talking. Historic naturalness. We don't act, we just defend ourselves...
...carrying out his instructions,'Lodge does an effective job of arguing the U.S. case,'both in open debate and in the incessant lobbying that goes on at the U.N. between debates. He proved his mettle as a tactician early in his U.N. career when he had to defend the unpopular U.S. proposal for a "two-sided" (no neutrals) Korean peace conference instead of the "roundtable" (neutrals present) conference urged by Britain, backed by the Soviet bloc. A round-table conference, said Lodge, would resemble an old-fashioned Mother Hubbard dress, "covering everything and touching nothing." At the Political...
...never mind talking," said a Macmillan aide, and Macmillan meant to speak as plainly to Khrushchev as Sir Anthony Eden had before about British determination to defend its interests in such Persian Gulf oil states as Kuwait (the source of half of Britain's oil). Britain's concern is immediate: the Sheik of Kuwait, whose oil royalties are some $300 million a year, conferred twice in Damascus last week with Nasser. It also became apparent that Macmillan was getting ready to put Nasser himself on trial. The Middle East war that Khrushchev said had "already begun...