Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conversation at Midnight. Next afternoon, Mendes-France and his good friend Anthony Eden flew in from Geneva, and Mendes hurried to the American embassy to greet Dulles. That night the bustling French Premier entertained the American and British Secretaries at dinner in the Premier's official residence. Hotel de Matignon. After coffee and liqueurs, Mendes snapped for a map and began to talk...
...talked until after midnight, explaining the military and political situation in Indo-China in minute detail. With eloquence he told Dulles exactly what he thought he could get at Geneva, and how much he was prepared to give. France, he declared, was not preparing to surrender everything for the sake of peace, would accept only a "reasonable"' armistice. He emphasized the importance of having the U.S. represented at Geneva "at the ministerial level." Without such representation, said Mendes-France bluntly, there was little hope for settlement...
...last minute of the last hour, France's energetic little Premier Pierre Mendès-France was determined not to lose his nerve. He expected trouble, and got it. "They will keep up the war of nerves until the end," he predicted, "perhaps until half an hour before midnight Tuesday, reckoning I shall weaken under pressure...
...evenings later I went to call on a government official who lives on a hill at the end of a lonely dirt road not far from the Aurora airport. He spoke frankly about local politics, and agreed that President Arbenz's political future was not too bright. About midnight, the phone rang. It was a crony saying that the city's lights had gone out. As he spoke, the lights dimmed in our house, then went out. The night was pitch black. It was Guatemala's first apagoÓn (blackout). Said my friend: 'Perhaps...
...Midnight Tango. In between large slices of history on German policy in Italy and the Balkans during World War II, Hoettl sandwiches in personality tidbits on other Nazi bigwigs. Ribbentrop was called Ribbentropf in South Germany, Tropf meaning lout. According to Hoettl, Ribbentrop, when enraged, would shut himself up in his darkened bedroom. This was called his "midnight tango act," and while it was on, foreign office underlings would secure the Deputy Foreign Minister's signature on papers they knew Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop would not have signed. Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of German military intelligence, was passionately fond...