Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even so, there are always politicians ready to demand a new, direct approach to Moscow. For them, Chancellor Adenauer found a timely and devastating answer last week. It came from France's Premier Guy Mollet, as he and Adenauer talked over the Saar settlement. On his recent trip to Moscow, Mollet was told by Khrushchev: "Seventeen million Germans in hand are preferable to 70 million united, even though neutral, Germans...
...departures, plastering up posters, organizing protest meetings-all with a fine disregard of the fact that only three months ago the party's Deputies voted solidly to give the government a free hand in Algeria. Now Premier Guy Mollet had confronted them-and all French parties-with a demand for a "package" vote of confidence on his whole policy, including both Algeria and his domestic program...
...heated caucus of the Communist Party councils, rank-and-file militants said they had been having a hard time explaining how the Communists could oppose the war in Algeria and still support the Socialist government. They demanded a show of hands, even though such a demand is hard to square with the theory of Communist discipline. The party elders, however, felt bound to hew to the Kremlin's new doctrine of fraternizing with the Socialists, whether or not the comradeship is reciprocated...
Many Social Democrats, including Vice Premier Giuseppe Saragat, the party's leader, were far from happy to see Matteotti negotiating with Stalin Peace Prize winner Nenni. And right from the start, Nenni flatly refused to meet the most critical Social Democratic condition for collaboration-a demand that he break his "unity of action" pact with the Communists. Matteotti, carefully leaving the door open to further negotiations, said that the first round of talks produced "no ruptures and no miracles." At week's end, however, Saragat stepped in to make it clear that neither he nor the Social Democratic...
...financial reputation. If a paper publishes or even hints at news from any meeting closed to the public, it can be shut down for as long as three months-and nobody on its staff may write for another publication during the shutdown. Persons attacked in a paper can demand twice as much space for rebuttal. Even newsboys are forbidden to shout any news that indirectly causes "doubts" about the government...