Word: parise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The small gilt-and-yellow ambassadors' lobby in the Hotel Matignon could not hold all the newsmen who had come. Some crowded into adjoining rooms; others stood in the courtyard outside, to which loudspeakers carried the cadenced voice. It was Charles de Gaulle's first press conference in...
Throughout Paris, De Gaulle's direct appeal to the rebels (hinting of a quieter mediation already in progress) brought relief. It was a triumph, not of politics, but of pure personality that enabled him to make his offer; as always, he remained the man above party. In the coming...
But, as De, Gaulle above all men knew, he had taken only one more calculated step down a long road. In Cairo the F.L.N.'s government in exile, which had been proclaiming its eagerness to talk peace, now betrayed its fear that De Gaulle had the upper hand. Premier...
To the 15 NATO ambassadors in Paris one day last week went a brusque message: "Emergency." Within the hour, the ambassadors gathered around a big green conference table in the Palais de Chaillot. NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak put it to them bluntly. "At stake," said he, "is the...
In his autobiographical Black Boy (TIME, March 5, 1945), Author Wright described how, from a horrible childhood in the South, he fled first to Chicago, then New York, finally to Paris.* He was an easy mark for the Communists but eventually saw through them and earned their lasting enmity. In...