Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that he had haughtily rejected. But he served notice that the strike would be on again Dec. i unless the "arrogant and brutal" mine owners came to terms. At a news conference, where he tried to look ferocious but looked instead like a tired and harried hoot owl, John L. tried to explain that it was not a retreat but simply a gesture of good will...
...Bidault constantly informed of the trend of talk at the Quai d'Orsay, and once Acheson and Bevin had to wait while Schuman rushed off to brief an emergency cabinet session. The Reds promptly set up a howl that Schuman was selling France down the Rhine. The Communist L'Humanité gibed: "Serons! nous cocacolonisés? [Will we be Coca-Colonized...
...close associate of the general in postliberation days, Bidault said last spring: "We are ready to rally around the prodigious name of General de Gaulle." No Gaullist deputy had voted against Bidault when he formed his new government. . Into this situation the newspaper L'Epoque, right-wing but not Gaullist, last week tossed a sensational story. In a signed front-page article, Editor Andre Bougenot declared: "Several important political personalities were recently shown the text of a secret protocol, signed by General de Gaulle and Georges Bidault." The deal, according to Bougenot, was that Bidault, if he became Premier...
...story, Charles de Gaulle'held a press conference. He called for electoral reforms, proposed a Europe-wide referendum on a European union, attacked the Western foreign ministers for not doing a better job of bringing about a French-German understanding (see INTERNATIONAL). When a newsman asked him about L'Epoque's story, De Gaulle said noncommittally: "I don't sign any protocols; I invite all Frenchmen, regardless of rank and creed, to rally around me in the best interests of the nation...
...Executive Secretary Glenn L. Archer of Protestants & Other Americans United for the Separation of Church & State was not reassured. Archer flatly called for the resignation of all Roman Catholic judges who cannot affirm that they will put their oath of office before the guidance...