Word: mende
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...most in the five days was the man who indifferently let EDC go to its death, and who did not hesitate to threaten the whole painfully contrived structure with last-minute disaster. Others had talked of "glorious visions" and wailed over the intransigence of the French Assembly. Pierre Mendès-France used that intransigence as a tool, and talked not of sentiments but of realities...
...structure of the new Europe was beaten out against the anvil of Mendès-France's realities. He who had helped destroy a dream had made his fellow bargainers settle for his version of the possible. The dreams may have been necessary in the beginning, but the new-style, unsentimental diplomacy of Mendès-France seemed to be just right...
...week long, a sour little man in a rumpled blue suit, a cigarette dangling from his mouth, darted among the Homburg-hatted diplomats of the West and flummoxed them. France's Pierre Mendès-France was something new to postwar diplomacy. He made no effort to appear obliging, did not seem to care whether anybody liked him personally or not. He had little to bargain with except the hopes he himself had aroused by pledging his troth to Western European Union in London. Now, with all the invitations issued, the guests on hand, the church bells pealing...
...French did not want us to have an army, we agreed to EDC. Now they don't want us to have EDC, so we will oblige them by agreeing to have an army," cracked one German. "I've come with great hope," said Konrad Adenauer. But Mendès soon let Adenauer know what his little matter was. It was the Saar...
...terms of the truce also called for each side to turn over public services in operating condition. Accordingly, French Premier Mendés-France sent a personal emissary to Hanoi to persuade the four big French-run public utility companies-the power plant, water company, Yunnan railway, and Hanoi's municipal streetcar system-to stay on under the Communists...