Word: mends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arabs, were angry at Mendès' promise of autonomy within the French Union. They denounced Mendès-France as a "Judas Iscariot"; planeload after planeload of them went tearing off to Paris to protest his "sellout" to their powerful representatives in the National Assembly. Paris told Premier Ben Amar that Tunisian independence was at best a "stated principle," which could not possibly be implemented until "arrangements" have been made to secure the colons' special interests-investments, privileges, jobs...
...Pierre Mendès-France, son of a clothing manufacturer, is economist first, politician and statesman second. The argument which did most to convince him that the Indo-China war must be stopped was that France could not afford it. His chief ambition in North Africa is to stabilize the area, so that France can concentrate on what he calls the "real battlefront": eco nomic reform...
...Mendès-France believes that the limping French economy needs more reform than it did in 1789. In his investiture speech, he promised to submit "a coherent program of recovery and expansion" by July 20. Last week, a few days late, Mendès kept his promise by laying before the National Assembly a dramatic blueprint for peaceful economic revolution...
Under the Oaks. Mendès-France calls his program le New Deal null He worked most of it out himself. Back from Geneva, Mendès set up shop outside Paris in a hunting lodge in the forest of Marly. Outdoors, under the oaks, Mendès met his two economic brain-trusters: Georges Boris, 66, and young Simon Nora, 33. He looked over blueprints proposed by Finance Minister Edgar Faure, and reworded by Boris and Nora. "I seem to find nothing but old projects," he grumbled. "They are neither original nor daring." He wanted a program of "total...
...Main Error. "We have really only one problem, at home and abroad," Mendès-France says. "France is the one nation in the West whose production has not increased in a generation. It is the same...