Word: moch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relaxing in slacks and sweater. On the littered political field of battle, musketry still rattled and firing squads went about their melancholy tasks. Reynaud, Pinay, Schuman, Bidault, Pleven and Laniel issued a defiant pledge that they would never give up the fight for EDC. The Socialist Party expelled Jules Moch and two other prominent anti-EDC rebels. The M.R.P. expelled three. Three pro-EDC Ministers resigned from the Cabinet, exactly counterbalancing the three anti-EDC Gaullists who had resigned three weeks ago in protest against Mendès' compromise proposals. Forced to his first Cabinet reshuffle, Mend...
...concessions-notably, German concessions on the Saar and U.S.-British guarantees to maintain troops in Continental Europe. Inside Laniel's Cabinet are Gaullists who are solidly against EDC. Most of EDC's support is in the center and moderate left. Yet a fortnight ago Jules ("The Lizard") Moch, a staunchly anti-Communist Socialist, gave the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee a thick, hostile report on EDC that amounted, as one commentator said, to "a dictionary of objections...
...Georges Heuillard down the steps from the rostrum. Suddenly, from the Gaullists on the far right of the bright red horseshoe of seats to the Communists on the far left, the diverse and divided politicians of France leapt to their feet and exploded into applause. Ex-Defense Minister Jules Moch, whose hatred of the Germans is twofold (he is Jewish, and lost his son in the Resistance), warmly embraced Heuillard. Robert Schuman, whose efforts to sell German rearmament to his countrymen were the target of Heuillard's passionate attack, advanced toward him, tears -in his eyes, to shake...
...Other familiar French figures to whom the day brought victory: able Foreign Minister Robert Schuman (MRP); Former Premier Georges Bidault (MRP); Minister of National Defense Jules Moch (Socialist). Also elected were two strays from France's darkest days: Munich-going Edouard Daladier (Radical) and Paul Reynaud (Independent), Premier at the time of the fall of France...
...Paris, De Lattre ran into opposition from two quarters. Defense Minister Jules Moch said he could not spare officer cadres, pointed to the ten divisions he had promised General Eisenhower for European defense in 1951. General Alphonse Juin, just back from a tour of troubled Morocco, said he needed veteran units in North Africa. But De Lattre had a firm supporter in Jean Letourneau, Minister for the Associated States. Said Letourneau: "We protect France by fighting in Indo-China...