Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Officially installed as Foreign Minister only a few hours, Edgar Faure was swimming in splendor at the first diplomatic reception of the year one evening last week. Then a journalist approached and drew his attention to a paragraph in L'Express, the news weekly edited by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 31, a Mendés-France adviser who has never liked Faure. In a high moralistic tone, the paragraph hinted that just before quitting the Finance Ministry, Faure had proposed the tax on racehorse sales in favor of wealthy horse owners. Concluded L'Express: "The wall between politics...
Mendés advisers worked out a calming communiqué which stated that L'Express had "totally deformed the facts," but Mendes forbade its issuance. While Mendés' harried advisers went back to work, the seconds got together across the street from Maxim's to discuss weapons. At last the advisers produced a new version, criticizing L'Express' "fallacious account," and declaring that the Premier "deplored that inadmissible insinuations be leveled at the professional conscience" of someone who enjoyed the Premier's entire confidence. Faure was mollified, Servan-Schreiber was relieved that...
...report goes on to express serious concern over the number of exceptionally promising candidates who refuse Harvard scholarships to attend other institutions...
...point. . . The Fellowship of Reconciliation is totally opposed to totalitarianism of all kinds, of the right or the left. The Food-for-China campaign arose out of compassion for hungry people who are our brothers, and out of a real conviction that it is only as men attempt to express a sense of brotherhood even to their enemies that there can be a change in the direction of peace and away from the world's preoccupation with suspicion and violence. . . Alfred Hassier, Editor, Fellowship Magazine
...news of the request, Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express exploded into enraged spluttering: "What reaction to Sir Miles's request? It should be: No. No. No. Not nineteen, not nine. Not a single one . . . His job is . . . to buy British-and fly British...