Word: mending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looking more than ever like a plumper and younger Winston Churchill; Canada's L. B. Pearson; Konrad Adenauer, gaunt and silent; Gaetano Martino, at his first international appearance as Italy's Foreign Minister; Joseph Bech from Luxembourg; Johan W. Beyen of The Netherlands; dark-jowled Premier Pierre Mendès-France, reading a magazine. The pressing task before them was to fill the void left by the French rejection of EDC-in short, to bring an armed Germany into the alliance without losing the French...
...This is a conference which must succeed," Anthony Eden began. Mendès-France, whose views were known the least and counted the most, hastened to explain his government's "philosophy" toward German rearmament. Diplomatic brows furrowed as Mendés reeled off the list of familiar French objections: controls, limits, agreements on the Saar. Then Mendès made a big concession. In principle, he said, France would no longer oppose West German sovereignty or its admission to NATO. "The French government," explained the man who had stood in five-to-one isolation at the Brussels Conference only...
Britain saw in the seeming Franco-German contradiction hope of a workable plan which would involve Britain more surely than EDC (through Britain's role as a Brussels partner) and also commit the U.S. more emphatically (through the NATO all-for-one agreement). Mendès-France seemed to be insisting on controls unacceptable to Germany. Adenauer's demands for all-at-once concessions were unacceptable to an aroused France. But neither, in Anthony Eden's view, had closed the door. He calculated optimistically-but perhaps not too much so-that theirs were bargaining terms, not final...
Paris, buzzing with rumors and guesses, waited impatiently for the tight-lipped Mendès government to explain what was really going...
When Premier Pierre Mendès-France came to power, Baylot was removed (TIME, July 26), and Jean Dides was transferred to a relatively minor job. But Dides was so in love with his former work that he went right on beagling about in the Red netherworld...