Word: mende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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France's audacious Premier Mendès-France lives on drama. By making Christmas the deadline for ratification of the Paris accords, he has loaded the interim period with high suspense. His Assembly opponents countered by filling the script with highly charged dialogue...
...thus increasing the pressure the Assembly can put on him). There were also useful provisions designed to handicap the Communists, e.g., eliminating the chance of Communists getting interim Cabinet posts after a government falls. La Réformette has been kicking around Parliament for four years and was not Mendès' baby, but he demanded that the Assembly avoid a national referendum on the issue by giving it a three-fifths vote. The Assembly obliged...
...France & Mendès-France...
...what the new "saviors" of the world would call old-fashioned and reactionary, but I was deeply grieved upon learning of France's abandonment-without even a popular referendum-of her majestic Indian territory of Pondicherry . . . If this deliberate withdrawal from French territory is a part of Mendès-France's new cooperative and "advanced" program, then I pity the fate of the remainder of the French Republic's pride and glory...
...country will feel safer against the prospect of war if German armies with Nazi officers have atom bombs? Really, it seems to me a piece of wanton frivolity to bring forward a proposal of this kind and discuss it as a diplomatic triumph." Eden was "squeezed into submission by Mendès-France and Foster Dulles. So far from it being a triumph, it was the most ignominious surrender in British history...