Word: mending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suddenly, all France rang with voices warning the politicos to mend their ways. President René Coty himself joined in the alarm: "In the course of their ephemeral existence, the successive chiefs of government have unceasingly, and for any reason, seen their confidence and authority questioned by those who invested them. Day after day, they are tormented and harassed until they are morally and physically exhausted." Pointedly, Coty cited Clemenceau's dictum: "Liberty is the right to discipline oneself so as not to be disciplined by others." In the pages of Le Figaro, André François-Poncet...
When ex-Premier Mendès-France offered the Assembly a bold program of action, the Deputies at first found it refreshing. But on further consideration, they decided that they did not like Mendès' brand of boldness. "Adventurism," they called it, and dismissed Mendès. Premier Edgar Faure offered them the opposite-a policy of the political carom shot, the showdown avoided, the adroit maneuver, the delicate adjustment. Last week the Deputies of France suddenly discovered that they were no longer amused by Edgar's "cleverness" either. Since in France the Assembly's whim...
...knowledge that the resignation of Faure, a member of the moderate Left, might compel the right-wing parties to form their own government. This in turn would probably consolidate the non-Communist Left (Socialists, left-wing Catholics, some Radicals) against them in a coalition led by ex-Premier Pierre Mendès-France. Whatever happens in Morocco, or anywhere else, the right-wingers are determined to keep energetic little Mendès from climbing back to power. The right-wing game is to use Faure (a fellow Radical of Mendès, and once his Finance Minister) to hold...
...formidable Marshal Juin, Resident General in Morocco, De Latour in 1951 commanded the French occupation forces in Austria, then was sent to Tunisia to put down the fellagha rebels. He smashed the rebellion ruthlessly but managed to keep political talks going at the same time. When Premier Mendès-France dramatically flew to Tunis with his offer of home rule (TIME, Aug. 9, 1954), De Latour was made Resident General, partly as a reward, partly to appease the fears of the French colons, who thought Mendès was going...
...country's "economically feeble," i.e., paupers, sick people over 60, everyone over 65. The Cabinet also recommended that the Defense Ministry increase by 50% the army's ration, now a pint of rough red pinard a day. In doing so, the government neatly canceled out former Premier Mendés-France's campaign to cut down on winebibbing among the soldiery. By Mendés-France's order, the serving of milk is obligatory at army messes: soldiers will continue to fight France's dairy overproduction by downing a glass of milk instead of coffee...