Word: mende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speech & Contradiction. Ambition-driven Mendès-France not only had little time to get started, but he was also the chief target of systematic hecklers from the right and left, including the strong-arm Poujadists. At a Left Bank rally in Paris, students hooted: "Mendès to the lamppost! Feed him to the jackals!" In his home department of Eure, he urged, in five or six speeches a day, an end to colonial wars abroad and "immobilism" at home. He was constantly interrupted. Usually Mendeès ignored the burly hecklers who make race-hate their specialty...
Challenge & Reservations. Like elections everywhere, local needs and local personalities loomed large. But Mendès-France one day last week demonstrated, in perhaps the most important utterance of the campaign, that "tomorrow's secret" might hold consequences pertinent to France's future as an international power and as a Western ally. Mendès, looking for votes on the left, made a move to woo voters away from the Communists-and did so by bending his policy to appeal to pro-Communist voters...
...Express, a daily devoted to his cause, Mendès published an editorial taking sharp issue with the recent NATO finding that the new Soviet activities in the Middle East and Asia pose "a new challenge to the free world." Mendès maintained that the new Soviet activity represents merely "economic expansion" of the kind Western nations practiced a century and less ago. The recent Soviet-bloc arms deals with Egypt, added Mendès, were provoked by "the unlucky Baghdad pact, which constituted for the West a blunder ..." Antoine Pinay's signature on the NATO communique...
...Mendès argued, "enables us to judge the profound error of French foreign policy...
...Mendès, a man of the left, says frequently that he does not want Communist support, and would not accept it. But his message in L'Express was a reminder of how this cunning politician, with his ambition to give France a domestic New Deal, has also shown a cool willingness to reduce, even shuck off, France's foreign responsibilities, and to cut her down to a small power with neutralist tendencies. He seemed to be suggesting to the Communist voters that he too has reservations about a foreign policy they hate, and that...