Word: mende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day in the Bundestag, the Chancellor confounded his adversaries and allies by himself plunging into the explosive issue of the Saar. He accused the French government of distorting the agreement which he made with Mendès-France in Paris. By himself voicing the increasing German distaste for the Saar portion of the Paris accords, der Alte hoped to forestall opposition charges that he had been maneuvered by Mendès-France into "selling out German territory." He promised to "clarify these obvious differences with the French Premier"; if that did not work, he would call...
Prospects in Paris. By that time, the Germans hope, the French National Assembly will have made its decision. The French debate begins this week. Mendès-France had confidently predicted in Washington that the National Assembly would ratify before the end of the year. Last week, when the Russians sent a threatening note, he scornfully asked: "Do they think they can frighten France?" He was equally casual about Adenauer's alarms over the Saar, putting out reassuring word that Adenauer was speaking for usage interne (home consumption) only...
Soon, however, Mendès himself was subjected to the demands of usage interne. The issue was Indo-China, but it might have been anything else that came to hand. In Parliament his majority was decreasing and his enemies increasing. From Gaullists to Socialists, the National Assembly took up the cry that the government plans to abandon what remains of French interests in Indo-China. Frenchmen, though they had almost unanimously supported him when he made the deal at Geneva, now show signs of reviling Mendès for his Indo-China "sellout," and for the fact that...
Saved by Two. These passions, and more, congealed when Mendès submitted his Indo-China budget. The Finance Committee scorned it, 25 to 14. When Mendès raced over to the National Assembly to try to save the day, he arrived just in time to hear a right-wing Deputy explaining that former Foreign Minister Georges Bidault had been all set to clear up the whole Indo-China mess when Mendès interfered and toppled the Laniel Cabinet. "That sounds like a beautiful serialized novel," Mendès cracked, but the Assembly was not amused. It voted...
Furiously maneuvering, the Premier forced a midnight session, and presented a hurriedly revised budget, in order to compel a new test of strength. He still could not find the votes. It began to look as if Mendès would be overthrown before he could get a vote on the Paris accords. Suddenly, out of the blue, two Deputies of Bidault's M.R.P. announced that they would switch their votes. At 4:30 a.m., Mendès' revised Indo-China budget was accepted by just two votes, 295 to 293. The Mendès government was saved...