Word: mends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate action is a reminder to France and Mendès-France that the U.S. can take measures for the defense of Europe that are much less palatable to the French than EDC. The U.S. cannot allow the Communists Asian leverage to be used to disarm Europe...
...defense of Europe has always been generally linked to Asia, but as a result of Geneva a new and dangerous specific dependence is established. Premier Mendès-France has placed his political future at the mercy of the Communists, who can destroy him at any time by resuming hostilities in Indo-China. If he makes an effort to get EDC ratified, the Red high command can pull the rug out from under...
...clock one morning last week, France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France drove through deserted Parisian streets to Le Bourget Airport. He was bound for another trouble spot-Tunis, the capital of strife-torn Tunisia. Having made a "cruel" peace in Indo-China because French colonialism had missed its opportunity there, he was determined that France should not make the same mistake in North Africa...
...hours later Mendès rode through the heavily guarded streets of Tunis. In the vast crowd under the broiling sun women shouted, "Yo, yo, yo!"-the old Moslem chant of joy. When Mendès stepped down before the palace of the 72-year-old Bey, Sidi Mohammed el Amin, the Bey caused sugared almonds to be cast under the Frenchman's feet. Mendès read out his plan to give Tunisia the internal freedom and autonomy that its nationalists have long and ardently coveted, while safeguarding the rights of the French colons (settlers) and France...
...provisions of Mend¶s' plan...