Word: moch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Afro-Asian outcries that this would menace the health and safety of millions of Africans, French Delegate Jules Moch brought forth maps showing that more than 10 million Americans live within 1,000 kilometers of the Nevada test sites, that nearly as many Russians live within a similar radius of the Soviet test center in Kazakhstan, but that only a few hundred thousand people live within 1,000 kilometers of the French testing center in the Desert of Thirst near Reggan...
...monotonous insistence the code phrase which signified that the rebellious generals of Algeria were ready to land their paratroops in Metropolitan France. In Paris white-faced ministers of the Fourth Republic nervously deployed a small army of steel-helmeted cops, not sure of their loyalty, and Interior Minister Jules Moch ordered coils of barbed wire laid out on 15 of the 18 airfields surrounding Paris. Escorting a visitor out of his office, ex-Premier Guy Mollet, onetime Socialist Resistance leader, soberly remarked: "We may never see each other again. I am going to die on the barricades...
...this tidal wave, many a figure from the past was swept away. The Socialists, hitherto France's biggest non-Communist party, lost a staggering 55 seats (from 95 down to 40). Among defeated Socialists were ex-Premier Paul Ramadier, Christian Pineau, Robert Lacoste and Jules Moch. The Radical Party, a dominant force in French politics since 1875, saw four of its ex-Premiers (Pierre Mendés-France, Daladier, Edgar Faure and Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury) go down to defeat. Also consigned to political oblivion: rabble-rousing near-fascist Pierre Poujade...
...losing control over Brigadier General Jacques Massu's paratroopers, could not be responsible for their actions if De Gaulle was not called to power soon. In France itself, pro-Gaullist "Committees of Public Safety" had sprung up in more than 100 towns, and when Interior Minister Jules Moch telephoned provincial prefects to find out what they were doing to suppress the committees, many a prefect was inexplicably unavailable. Most shattering of all had been the upshot of Moch's efforts to put down the Corsican uprising. In defiance of a direct order, France's air force failed...
...Paris alone Moch had at his disposal last week 35,000 men drawn from five different units-the Police Judiciare, the Police Générale, the Police Municipale, the Compagnie Républicaine de Securité and the Garde Mobile...