Word: mende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hammarskjold's next stop was Paris, where French Premier Pierre Mendès-France went out to Orly Field to meet him.* The two men chatted for an hour and Mendès-France commended this "mission of peace...
Like antagonists retiring from the battlefield to regroup, France's National Assembly and Premier Mendès-France went off last week on short vacations. For Mendès the vacation was, typically, an opportunity to get work done. Chronically unable to leave his job behind him, Mendès booked reservations for himself and his pretty wife Lily at the Italian resort town of Positano, but then loaded up the schedule with an imposing list of appointments-an audience with Pope Pius XII, a meeting with Italy's Premier Mario Scelba and, on the way home...
...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...
Servan-Schreiber, pointing with pride to "the exceptional nature of a meeting on the political plane between Pierre Mendés-France, liberal statesman; François Mauriac, inspiration of the Christian left, and André Malraux, the revolutionary guide who renounced nothing which united him with De Gaulle," concluded: "Here are the men from whom the rising generation can draw reasons for ... believing again in the virtues of political action...