Word: mende
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...brim with endless, multilingual talk. Only rarely does the Palais, one of the world's largest office buildings, come to life with such dramatic moments as Emperor Haile Selassie's moving speech against Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia, or the sight of French Premier Pierre Mendès-France, watch in hand, signing at 4 a.m. the accord ending the Indo-China war to meet the deadline he had set himself on taking office...
...still the town's toniest hangout; over the past several years, its guests have ranged from high royalty and heads of state (Belgium's Leopold III and son Baudouin, President Félix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, France's Pierre Mendés-France, Italy's Umberto, the Princesses Brigitta of Sweden and Alexandra of Britain) to plain old actors and artists (Joan Crawford, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Armstrong, Ava Gardner, Melina Mercouri, Lionel Hampton and Pablo Casals...
...motives were chiefly to save the Chancellor from a Bundestag whose non-Bavarians were becoming increasingly fretful at being kept in the dark over Der Spiegel, their advice was sound. What Dr. Adenauer does now will determine the pattern of German politics for years. If he seriously tries to mend the liberal institutions which the last month has shown to be trembling close to ruin, his rescue of democracy in Germany may be conclusive. So sordid has the Government's treatment of the Spiegel case looked this far that a fair settlement will involve its losing face rather than saving...
...hand-picked candidate. Resistance Hero Jules Houcke, 64. who did not even make a single public campaign speech. Former Socialist Premier Guy Mollet, who commands a smooth local machine as longtime mayor of Arras, ran 1,200 votes behind a little-known Gaullist. In Normandy, former Radical Premier Pierre Mendés-France, 55, dour Cassandra of the intellectual left, was hopelessly outdistanced by urbane Jean de Broglie. 41, De Gaulle's civil service chief. From Toulouse to Versailles, many other old-line politicians were defeated by newcomers who, in the French phrase, were "parachuted" into critical constituencies...
...Sanctions against South Africa's racist regime were proposed in an Afro-Asian resolution calling for a worldwide boycott on South African goods, a break in diplomatic relations, and possible expulsion from the U.N. if the Verwoerd regime does not mend its ways. The measure passed by 60 to 16, with 21 abstentions. The vote pointed to a double standard: South Africa's regime, reprehensible though it is, can hardly be considered worse than the Red Chinese tyranny, but 23 Afro-Asian delegates who voted sanctions against South Africa also voted to admit Red China...