Word: mende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truth is that in a world where only material power counts, our pretensions at playing the fourth big power were judged ridiculous by the three others because they really were." Le Monde saw it as a parallel to Sir Winston's recent letter to Pierre Mendès-France. warning that if Paris rejected German rearmament, the Allies would once again have to proceed with an "empty chair...
France's new Premier Edgar Faure has set himself a characteristic goal: to steer a middle course between Mendès-France's contentious boldness and the do-nothingism of Mendès' predecessors. "I know people will talk about my having a small appetite," he said. "I don't eat everything in sight. I nibble...
...Senate, Faure pushed ahead with a headache inherited from Mendès: the vital Paris accords. The Senate has no veto power, but by an unfavorable vote, or even by tacking on an amendment, it can send the accords back to the Assembly for another debate and another vote, a laborious business that might prove lethal. Faure was determined to get the accords approved "without amendment and without delay...
...used his criminal cases as background for a series of detective stories written under the pen name of Edgar Sanday. The Faures caught the last boat to leave Vichy France for North Africa, where Edgar joined General de Gaulle. After liberation he was put in a financial job by Mendès, then Minister of National Economy. A typical Faure legend has it that he committed the 1,000-page tax catalogue to memory in four days, amazed the Assembly by answering questions on a complex tax proposal for two hours without preparation or notes. Later, he served...
...first-naming familiarity. He lives in deep-carpeted splendor in one of Paris' most fashionable apartment houses with his wife and their two daughters. His energetic wife publishes a political review. La Nef, presides over a salon peopled with avant-garde writers and left-wing intellectual-politicians. Where Mendès whipped men to decision by the scornful lash of his tongue, Faure seeks to cajole. But two months ago Faure flew into a rage when L'Express' Editor Servan-Schreiber hinted that he had reduced the tax on race horses for the sake of his fellow...