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...time had come for a parting of the ways. Pierre Mendès-France wrote to his friend Guy Mollet, the Socialist Premier of France: "Any policy that ignores the feelings and the misery of the native population leads, step-by-step, to loss of the Algerian people, to loss of Algeria itself, and finally, inevitably, to loss of all our possessions in Africa...
...French Academy last year, he won the votes of traditionally anticlerical members. And when a small group of friends began a fund to buy him the academician's customarily ornate sword, they were swamped by almost 2,000 contributors-including five cardinals, twelve foreign ambassadors, former Premier Pierre Mendès-France, Movie Actress Claude Nollier, Dressmaker Pierre Balmain, the entire staff of the women's magazine, Marie-Claire, and a boy scout troop...
...team is Captain Al Gordon, who leads in the 440. Wilson terms him a powerful determined runner, who is as strong as an ox. In the last meet, he did the quarter in 50 seconds flat, but injured his ankle in the process. It has just begun to mend. Backing him up is another fine runner, Walt Belenky...
...effect, a legal compromise under which the accused company stoutly denies that it has really done anything wrong-but agrees to mend its ways...
...duly invaded Laos. They were unopposed. In May 1954, soon after the fall of Dienbienphu, Chief of Staff General Paul Ely outlined France's catastrophic military situation to the Defense Committee. Two days later L'Express (edited by Jacques Servan-Schreiber and then in stout support of Mendès-France for Premier) printed the secret plan to send conscripts to Indo-China. Ex-Police Commissioner Baylot testified he had done nothing about the leaks. Pleaded Baylot: "You know.how it is. Whenever you signal something like that, somebody will tell you he'll take care...