Word: mende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most articulate of Premier Mendès-France's young braintrusters is J. J. Servan-Schreiber, 30, editor of the weekly political review L'Express. A U.S.-trained fighter pilot who served, with a Free French squadron in the Ninth U.S. Air Force, Servan-Schreiber was friend and counselor of France's Premier long before he came to power. This article was written by him for TIME...
Last week two significant events occurred within 24 hours. Tuesday evening Premier Pierre Mendès-France gathered in Paris, for the first time in seven years, all the chiefs of the French provincial and overseas administration. He outlined the economic revolution which he is about to launch. Wednesday evening, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles administered to the French Premier, for the first time since the end of the war, a diplomatic slap in the face...
...Mendès-France should order the government radio to explain to Frenchmen that the irritation our Western partners feel toward us is understandable. He should announce as soon as possible what his alternative solution is to the German rearmament. The Premier should say that the majority which rejected EDC is not "his" majority and that his real majority will soon be composed, not of Communists, neutralists or false nationalists, but of those loyal to European and Atlantic solidarity, who by mischance, on the EDC issue, find themselves dispersed between the two camps...
Britain's suggestion of a nine-power conference to be held in London this week was politely shunted aside by Mendès-France (who murmured "premature"), by Adenauer (who feared that haste might result in another Brussels brawl), and by the U.S. State Department, which wasn't ready with ideas...
Following his tour, Eden still hopes to convene a nine-nation meeting in London. Face to face, he believes that Mendès-France and Adenauer can work out a series of "adequate safeguards" before NATO takes up the question of German admission, probably in October. France willing, the chances were growing that some time this fall. West Germany will get back its sovereignty and be "associated" with NATO. And if Paris says no? The British at least are for a series of ad hoc bilateral pacts between the U.S., Britain and Germany, so that the Germans can be tied...