Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rush was on to call off the whole embittering war in Indo-China. A man of Munich mounted the rostrum, an older, shrunken figure of the man who in 1938 spoke for the abandonment of Czechoslovakia. "Ceasefire and armistice are in the vital interest of the French army," said Edouard Daladier, now 69. "I fear that if we await the decision of the international conference in Geneva, we shall find ourselves . . . too late, much too late...
Regarding the EDC: I agree with a great many French statesmen or soldiers-including General de Gaulle, Edouard Herriot, Marshal Juin-in considering that scheme as a terrible danger for my country...
...Replace Me." Immediately, the leader of the Gaullists in Laniel's Cabinet objected. "The government is not entitled to sign an agreement which implies effective creation of EDC" protested Edouard Corniglion-Molinier. The Minister of Overseas Territories supported him: "I consider the British terms hollow...
Last week France, which recently had trouble choosing a President of the Republic, had to pick an Assembly president. Grand old (81) Edouard Herriot, crippled by phlebitis, had declined the job which he has ably filled since 1947. (The Assembly thereupon made him its honorary president, the first in French history, and will let him keep quarters in the Palais Bourbon...
...could not be equaled in any museum outside of Spain. Pieter Bruegel's ecstatically tranquil Harvesters dominated one room. Caravaggio's Musicians another. In the galleries devoted to modern painters. Pablo Picasso's peaceful Woman in White, recently acquired from the Museum of Modern Art, and Edouard Manet's great, sea-fresh Boating were standouts...