Word: laniel
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains. The weekend had scarcely begun when news arrived that physical strain resulting from overwork had forced Britain's Sir Winston Churchill (78) to postpone indefinitely plans for a Bermuda meeting with Ike and French Premier Joseph Laniel (see FOREIGN NEWS). President Eisenhower promptly sent off a sympathetic letter to the British Prime Minister. Wrote the President: "I look upon this as only a temporary deferment of our meeting. Your health is of great concern to all the world and you must, therefore, bow to the advice of your...
Every Frenchman knows Calvados, the fiery Norman applejack, but few knew much about the man from Calvados. When Joseph Laniel rose in the tribunal of the National Assembly last week to make his bid to become Premier of France, he brought to that jaded assembly something of the freshness of the Normandy apple country he represents. A friendly, ruddy-faced man of 63, barrel-chested Assemblyman Laniel offered a "maybe-yes maybe-no" program with all the tight-fisted caution of a Norman farmer. After 36 days of bitter inter-party feuding, the fact that Joseph Laniel was relatively unknown...