Word: edouard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...East must be sought first. Logic dictates it . . . an alliance with Russia is a geopolitical must for France." Complained old Paul Reynaud, the man who was Premier in 1940 when France fell: "The Paris accords give the political hegemony to England and the military hegemony to Germany." Doddering old Edouard Herriot summarized for the fearful. "I refuse to accord [the Germans] either my sympathy or friendship," Herriot complained in his best emotional quaver. "The U.S. de serves that we make sacrifices for it. But France cannot sacrifice her conscience...
...Bear Speaks. Under the préalable rule, only one speech is allowed each side before the vote. For this speech EDC's foes shrewdly called on ailing old Edouard Herriot, honorary President of the Assembly, who for years has appealed more to French emotions than to French intelligence. Bowed under the weight of his 82 years and long illness, he was too feeble to rise and mount the rostrum, but from his bench the "old bear" spoke theatrically in his deep voice. "I have read the documents with anguish," he rumbled. "No one can say that Great Britain...
Radical Socialist Edouard Daladier, Foreign Minister at the time of Munich and now a man Molotov praises, struck first. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, he cried, had "failed to get anywhere at all." Bidault, just off the train from Geneva and even more sleepy-lidded than usual, confessed that he could not report "promise of certain success" at Geneva...
...EDOUARD VUILLARD lived most of his 72 years in the 20th century, but he was essentially a 19th century man. He achieved artistic fame in Paris before he was 30, soon after 1900 slipped into the critical obscurity that engulfed the last 40 years of his life...
...bitter news spread across France, national theaters' were closed down for two days (many ticket buyers were disappointed by the cancellation of the long-anticipated Soviet ballet at the Opera). A special Mass was scheduled at Notre Dame. "A veil of mourning has fallen over France," said Edouard Herriot, aged (81) veteran of France's many modern sadnesses...