Word: mende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before he arrived, rumors reached Washington that Mendès-France was coming as a sort of Peking Tom, that he would propose U.S. recognition of Red China in exchange for a Red Chinese guarantee to restrain the Viet Minh in tottering Indo-China. In the midst of the rumors. Senator William Knowland interrupted the McCarthy censure debate for a speech on foreign policy (see above). But as matters turned out, there was no cause for alarm: Mendès and Dulles quickly agreed that recognition of Red China was not one of the questions they would discuss...
...arrival in Washington of the Premier of France stirred up more than ordinary interest on the part of the public and the public's servants. As he made his official rounds last week, Pierre Mendès-France was greeted everywhere by swarms of curious, often applauding Washingtonians, eager for a glimpse or a snapshot of the most-discussed, most controversial Frenchman since General Charles de Gaulle. Mendès-France had been characterized variously as a fickle Gallic opportunist and as a pin-striped Savonarola who preached hard truths. Preparing to return to France this week, the brisk...
...When Mendès himself appeared at the recent Radical-Socialist Party congress, drinking a glass of milk and urging all of the delegates "to do the same thing," he was greeted with roars of laughter. By last week the laughter was abating. Liquor interests, thirsty workmen, café owners, bartenders, home-brewers and, indeed, most of France's hard-drinking population, were mobilizing to combat the threat to their national pastime. They form a large bloc: one Frenchman in seven is involved in the making of wine; alcohol is France's largest industry, grossing some 675 billion...
...turn to the East, we are lost. For, although there is widespread resentment in Germany over the treatment Russians have inflicted upon deported populations, it is Russia which holds in its hands all that Germany wants : its reunification first, which neither President Eisenhower, nor Sir Winston Churchill, nor M. Mendès-France can give her. One word from the Kremlin, however, could. Germany needs to export towards Eastern Europe, towards Russia, towards China. What would she not do to secure these markets? And even this isn't all, for Russia can offer to Germany, as the supreme gift...
Meet the Press (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC). Guest: France's Pierre Mendès-France...