Word: mend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Servan-Schreiber fails utterly to explain what is wrong with EDC or why it is necessary for Mendés-France . . . to kick U.S. diplomats in the teeth in order to set France's internal house in order...
...roots of present French weakness go deep into the roots of the very economy and habits of the country. Mendés-France is out to transform the economy of France from a cobwebbed cartelized stand-pattism into a vigorous competitive capitalism. To do this he must step on some well-shod toes, but in the ensuing process France will leave the bread line of U.S. foreign aid and take her rightful place in the community of Western nations...
...year the Communist trade-union leaders of the CGT have been carefully avoiding any social agitation, since that might split the united front between the Communists and the far right against the European Defense Community. Now that the immediate goal of this strange alliance has been achieved, Mendès-France's still-undefined foreign policies will determine whether he will continue to be "tolerated" by the Communists...
Like a camel driver urging his beast to get up off its knees. French Premier Pierre Mendès-France cajoled and prodded the French National Assembly towards the decision it had balked at for years. Now both France's allies and France's enemies demanded that the issue of German rearmament be met, and Mendès promised that France would declare itself...
...Deputies were present. All Europe waited on their decision, yet there was little to be felt or seen of the profound sense of history that had reigned at the London Conference and shone in its decisions. A bored-looking, frock-coated usher placed the inevitable glass of milk at Mendès' right hand, and in a flat, disappointed voice, the Premier began to speak. Mendès was off form. His theme was essentially negative. Bidding for the support of EDC champions, he argued that enough of EDC's supranationality had been put into the Brussels Treaty...