Word: mende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...serious danger in Soviet economic and political offensives; the U.S. must aim toward a long-range world economic policy to counter the new Soviet offensive. With President Eisenhower back in charge, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles went abroad in an attempt to bolster some points of strength, mend some points of weakness. In Karachi, at a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, Dulles considered ways to promote new collective action against the new Communist economic offensive. Before the session was over, the SEATO council had agreed to appoint an economic officer...
From Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, who was governor of Algeria under Mendès-France, came support for Lacoste. Said Soustelle: "If the Mediterranean becomes a moat instead of a passage, France will cease to be a great power and will see the whole of Africa closed...
...negotiate fresh concessions from the French. The day the Moroccan declaration was signed, Premier ben Amar conferred earnestly with Ben Youssef. Between them, the Moroccans and Tunisians had set up a political whipsaw which had France dodging. Tunisia was the first to win local self-government, from then-Premier Mendès-France. Moroccans promptly demanded the same thing, and with the precedent of Tunisia, no succeeding government could deny them. Now the Tunisians were back to get whatever the Moroccans got. Said Ben Youssef to Premier ben Amar with satisfaction: "North Africa is a single people. What profits...