Word: mending
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...documents," said Labrusse. He said he had only "chatted" with Baranés as he would with any newspaperman. Turpin said he had only been "imprudent," but he had hoped his "imprudences" would reach Laniel opponents, who were trying to stop the Indo-Chinese war-someone, for example, like Mendès-France...
Fingerprints. Out of the mixture of lies, facts and opinion, supporters of Mendès-France felt last week that they were arriving at a partial explanation. If they were right, the answer went to the heart of France's political sickness. Their theory: Dides, under the direction of disgruntled right-wingers of Mendès' own Radical Socialist Party, had deliberately used the defense leaks to try to discredit Mendès and bring the downfall of his Minister of the Interior, François Mitterrand...
...proof, the Mendès men pointed to evidence heavily marked with Radical Socialist fingerprints. It was no secret that Mendès incurred the personal enmity of some of the Radical Socialist old guard when he took the Interior Ministry, which they had long considered their own special bailiwick, away from Radical Socialist Léon Martinaud-Déplat and gave it to young, energetic Francois Mitterrand of the moderate, splinter-sized Democratic and Socialist Resistance Union. The bitterness was quickly evident. Though Martinaud-Déplat had learned of the first leak before Mendès took...
...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...