Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mysteries of drink, cigarettes, prostitutes, pawnshops and left-wing thought." For a young man whose will is as weak as his life drive, this strange combination paves the road to the lower depths. Yozo has an affair with a waitress, but fluffs his end of their suicide pact. Scrabbling for a living as a second-rate cartoonist, he is kept, for a time, by a woman journalist. To keep himself in cheap gin, the cartoonist sinks to pornography. Toward novel's end, Yozo is even ready to make love to a monstrously crippled female druggist in return for morphine...
...government showed obvious relief this week as France, the U.S.'s oldest ally, the nation at the heart of the NATO pact, stopped short of the brink of civil war. In Paris General Charles de Gaulle was made Premier by constitutional vote (see FOREIGN NEWS). In Washington President Eisenhower, after an uneasy week, took what amounted to a major U.S. policy decision. He told his staff that he would be "very interested" in meeting De Gaulle at the right time in Washington or some place else to talk things over...
...delusions of grandeur inextricably entangled with an inferiority complex." Debré is suspicious of U.S. intentions in North Africa ("The U.S. appears on the scene only when there is a profitable investment to be made or a strategic base to be established"), wants Europe to unite in a "defense pact" against Islam instead of the Soviet Union. A sharp pamphleteer and good debater, Debré originated the famed Ecole Nationale d'Administration to train top diplomats and civil servants. As a legal expert in France's highest court, he will presumably be entrusted with De Gaulle...
...André Malraux, 56, novelist, art historian, one of France's most brilliant intellectuals. Malraux was a revolutionary in the 19205 and '303 (and relived it in his novels-Man's Fate, Man's Hope), but denounced Communism on the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact of 1939, fought bravely in the resistance, became so disgusted by parliamentary paralysis after the war that he served six years as a De Gaulle lieutenant, has since concentrated on art and archaeology...
...challenge of France, old U.S. ally and nation at the heart of the NATO pact, found the U.S. standing on the sidelines, confident that France could respond to her own challenge and capture the kind of internal strength and stability indispensable to her key position among Western nations (see FOREIGN NEWS...