Word: mende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MENDÈS CAN RESTORE ATLANTIC SOLIDARITY
...Mendès-France indignantly denies the accusations of those who imply that he intends to junk the Atlantic alliance. His denials are well justified, for to anyone who knows the moral strength and courage he has shown during the war years, the accusations are absurd. There should be no doubt about the sincerity of his repeated declarations in favor of the Atlantic alliance; only these declarations mean nothing. In politics intentions mean less than the consequences of our actions. Benes did not want the Sovietization of his country; the Roosevelt government did not intend to deliver a hundred million...
...79th year, Konrad Adenauer, Der Alte of West Germany, was not as well as he looked: he had come back from the Brussels Conference plagued with insomnia, able to sleep only under doses of drugs. At Brussels, after the meeting ended, he had seen Mendès-France for an hour. Every word had hurt. EDC was dead. Mendès said. "But my French friends tell me that EDC has a chance in the National Assembly," said Adenauer. "They lied to you " Mendès had replied curtly...
Beset as he was by the EDC fight, Premier Mendès-France found time to keep one prior promise: an attempt to bring peace and stability to France's shaky, strife-torn North African empire in Tunisia. Mendès himself, in his first weeks in office, had promised the Bey of Tunis internal sovereignty and an all-Tunisian government. Last week talks designed to bring substance out of the shadow of the Mendès proposals began in Tunis...
...give the talks the best possible chance of success, Mendès restored to legal status the Neo-Destour Party of nationalists, outlawed since 1938. Several hundred Tunisians, held in isolation or in jail, were amnestied (though not any accused of murder). Travel controls were eased. These improvements followed the suggestions of Habib Bourguiba, exiled Neo-Destour leader, who is now sojourning at a villa not far from Paris and giving friendly advice to the Mendès-France government...