Word: morely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After 390 days of successful "immo-bilism" (patient compromise, appeasement, moderation), the government of mild little Henri Queuille headed last week for the nearest exit. The events of the week threw, once more, a glare on the weaknesses of coalition government and of the French "revolving door" system.
M. Queuille is a Radical Socialist (in the French spectrum, somewhat to the right of center). For more than a year he had shepherded a coalition cabinet of Radicals, Socialists, and Popular Republicans. He had frozen wages; but prices kept on oozing upward.
One in every four of West Berlin's workers is jobless: a total of 250,000. At the beginning of the blockade the total was 50,000; at the end, 150,000. In five months of "peace,"' 100,000 more have lost their jobs. Why is this?
In Wall Street's betting during the British general elections of 1945. Winston Churchill was favored to win over his Socialist opponent Clement Attlee. Among Britain's bookies last week, Winnie's three-year-old colt Colonist II was the odds-on favorite for the Tonbridge Plate...
Depending on whether they read their news in English or French, Montrealers last week got different slants on the same story. The French-language press reported that a man named Taillefer had pleaded guilty to five charges of keeping and selling narcotics. English papers were more specific: the man was...