Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment of truth for the Geneva conference came in a "secret session" held at the elegant Villa Barakat, once the property of the late Aga Khan and now the temporary headquarters of French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. Drinks in hand (fruit juice for Russia's Gromyko), the foreign ministers of the Big Four and their assistants sat in awkward silence last week on Couve's terrace, looking down through a lovely spring evening at the waters of Lake Geneva. With all the vast range of East-West conflicts as their province, the assembled diplomats could find...
Gathering in Munich to sign away the life of Czechoslovakia were "the Italians, clearly terrified of being landed by Hitler into a European war; the French, including [Premier] Daladier, resolved to reach agreement at any cost," and "so on edge that from time to time they gave the impression that Czechoslovakia was to be blamed for having brought all this trouble upon us. In this atmosphere Hitler had little difficulty getting...
...ship he wanted was the Ile de France, the French Line's "Rue de la Paix of the Atlantic," winner of the Croix de guerre for service as a troopship during World War II. Stone got her, and last week he was ready to sink...
...French Line retired the 31-year-old Ile de France last autumn, sold her to a Japanese scrap merchant named Seichi Okada, who for the last few weeks has been collecting $4,000 a day in rent from Andy Stone and MGM. Finally, on location last week in Osaka Bay, the Ile reverberated with strange commands, such as "Open the barndoors on the broads!"* In the first-class staterooms, a collection of extras as mixed as the strays in a Conrad novel-English girls from Kobe, White Russians, Poles, wives of U.S. marines, a French judo expert-had the maritime...
Meanwhile, keeping an agreement with the French government, Writer-Producer-Director Stone had removed the name Ile de France from every part of the ship, repainted the name Olympus on lifeboats, life rings, prow and stern. Promptly the Greek Line, which has a ship called Olympia, threatened suit. More paint. This week, if all goes according to schedule the Ile de France, her three forward compartments flooded with 7,000 tons of Osaka Bay, will aim her four great screws and the new name Claridon into the wide, wide lenses...