Word: mend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Mendès announced that he was leaving for a month's skiing and thinking, while Faure prepared to govern France by carom shot...
...French army doctor, Edgar Jean Vincent Barthelemy Faure (pronounced fore) was a nearsighted youth but a dazzling student, won his bachelor's degree at 15, his law degree at 19 from the Paris Faculty of Law, where he met another brilliant young law student, Pierre Mendès-France. In 1931 Faure married tall, blonde, elegant Lucie Meyer, daughter of a prosperous silk merchant, took his old friend Mendès on the honeymoon-a months-long tour of Russia (Mendès took sick, was sent home), during which Faure polished up the Russian he had learned...
...Abstainer. In his speech Edgar Faure did not mention Mendès-the first time on record a Premier-designate had violated the tradition of praise for his predecessor. Mendès did not once join in the applause and he pointedly abstained on the vote. Later, when Mendès formally turned over the Premier's office to Faure, Mendès refused to be photographed in the traditional smiling handshake, ducked out of a side door, where he was cheered by 200 waiting supporters. Nonetheless, Edgar Faure was given a fair chance to survive a while...
Cynics call Faure "the juggler," and the Cabinet he presented was a masterpiece. Gone were the bright young men of Mendès' Cabinet. Replacing them were many of the old familiar faces of postwar France, carefully balanced off as Faure doled out the spoils to the bargainers. To soothe the conservatives, the foreign ministry went to Independent Antoine Pinay, a sturdy pro-European pledged to push through the Paris accords. But as his own ministerial lieutenant Faure appointed Gaullist Gaston Palewski, a leader of the opposition to the accords who has organized the effort to block implementation even...
Asking to be confirmed in office, Faure talked to patches of empty seats and small applause. Abroad, Faure's policy was Mendès' policy-quick ratification of the Paris accords for German rearmament, but a new effort immediately thereafter for talks with Russia. Domestically, he avoided Mendès' "psychological shock," promised a conservative program of increasing production, cutting prices, and raising wages slightly. On what one newspaper called "a wave of lassitude," the Assembly approved by a resounding 369 to 210, with only the Communists and Socialists opposed...