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Where it couldn't cram its surpluses down foreign gullets, the U.S. seemed determined to force-feed its own. President Eisenhower, taking a tip from Lacto-phile Pierre Mendès-France, announced that the nation's armed forces and schoolchildren were going to get more milk. Benson urged the nation to eat more eggs. With U.S. hens laying 270 million more eggs in January than the record nestful of a year ago, Benson had reason to be alarmed. "Besides being friendly to your budget," cackled an urgent Agriculture Department brochure, "eggs are friendly...
...Pierre Mendès-France, the unresting, was headed for conferences with Italian Premier Scelba and Germany's Chancellor Adenauer. It was international fence-mending week. The Italians, who had a list of 72 minor questions to settle with the French (e.g., sea-traffic regulations between Corsica and Sardinia), had offered to journey as usual to Paris, but Mendès overnight made himself something of an Italian hero by going, instead, to Rome...
...Mendès hoped to enlist Italian and German support for two of his pet projects: 1) a European Arms Pool, to standardize and control arms production in all Western European Union nations, and 2) talks with the Russians in the spring. Italian and German backing, he thought, might help him get German rearmament through the French Senate later this month...
...royal. Summoning his Cabinet, he persuaded them to endorse a new electoral law and then, without any advance warning, sprang it on the scattering Deputies. It calls for abandoning proportional representation, which has helped to perpetuate the splintering of France's parliament into a multitude of bickering factions. Mendès would return to direct vote of Deputies by districts, as it was under the Third Republic...
...anti-Communists to band together and beat a Communist in runoff elections. The other big parties like Catholic M.R.P. and the Socialists, which depend more on doctrine than on local appeal, are not confident enough of the strength of their individual candidates to cheer for the change. For Mendès-France and his followers, however, the change seems a way to upset party strangle holds and prepare the way to the new "grouping of the left" which Mendèsites prescribe for a healthier, more dependable France (TIME, Jan. 10). But French governments that propose electoral reforms have...