Word: leader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Republic nervously deployed a small army of steel-helmeted cops, not sure of their loyalty, and Interior Minister Jules Moch ordered coils of barbed wire laid out on 15 of the 18 airfields surrounding Paris. Escorting a visitor out of his office, ex-Premier Guy Mollet, onetime Socialist Resistance leader, soberly remarked: "We may never see each other again. I am going to die on the barricades...
...world at large first formed its impression of Charles de Gaulle in World War II, and it was not an endearing one. As leader of Free France, he was proud, touchy, intransigent. Winston Churchill felt that De Gaulle owed his continued existence to the British, and should be grateful and compliant. All parties concerned have since composed more graceful tribute to one another, but in those tense days feelings ran high. To Franklin Roosevelt, De Gaulle was an upstart playing Joan of Arc. "Yes," Churchill is reported to have rejoined, "but my bloody bishops won't let me burn...
...investigate" the troubled Syrian situation, Nasser announced appointment of a three-man committee, including his police boss, Zakaria Mohieddin, and Vice President Akram Hourani, the Baath Socialist leader who rushed his country into union with Egypt last year precisely to avert a Communist takeover...
General & Artists. "A military leader, in conceiving his plans, undergoes an experience analogous to that of the creative artist. The latter does not cease to use intelligence. He draws upon it for examples, procedures, knowledge. But creation itself is possible for him only through the exercise of an instinctive faculty-inspiration...
...stagnant fight for Cuba's provinces began to look like a war. All week long, Rebel Leader Fidel Castro's radio blared victory, reported forces sweeping through town after town in Oriente and Las Villas provinces, routing small garrisons, setting up rebels as "civil authorities." The excited trumpeting was probably overdone. But there was little question that the rebels were on the move, or that Dictator Fulgencio Batista's army was retreating to defensive ground in Cuba's big cities...