Word: koenig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pinay had the tough task of opposing Faure enough to satisfy his own conservative supporters, but. not enough to bring the government down. In the end, he shifted his position and accepted Faure's plan. Defense Minister Pierre Koenig went along, too, announcing with a martyred air: "I will suffer your solution...
Counterthreat. Mendès got Bourguiba's endorsement of his plan. Then, in a bitter five-hour fight, Mendès pushed his Tunisia plan through to cabinet approval. Two Gaullist members-Defense Minister Pierre Koenig and Minister for Tunisian and Moroccan Affairs Christian Fouchet -feared a "sellout" and threatened to resign. "If you resign," snapped Mendès, "I resign." That counterthreat brought the dissidents into line...
Mendès' solution for the problem is to turn it over to two of his Cabinet members, one ardently for EDC (Radical Maurice Bourgés-Maunoury) and the other (Defense Minister Pierre Koenig, a Gaullist) with a strong aversion for putting French soldiers under any supranational authority. He told them to work something...
...Basel's Helvetia Society, with 1,112 points, no penalties, got the champion's oakleaf wreath and a two-gallon, silver-studded drinking horn brimming with white wine. Farmer Gruber, with 104 personal points and one incredible 340-yd. clout, was acclaimed the Schläger Koenig (batting king...
...Koenig Albert cast off from Dover. Leaning on the taffrail, the Italians reflected on the months of wasted time. Some were bitter: "The English were afraid we would take their work away from them. How could we? They don't do any." Others grieved. "They wouldn't talk to us," cried Giovanni Ovino. "I said to myself: 'Maybe they don't like my black hair.' In a funny way, I felt ashamed of my hair. But how could I change it?" Domenico Loi saw it in a wider context. "They weren't Communists...