Word: parody
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Countess de Castellane, formerly Anna Gould. Furniture movers, electricians and telephone men were hard at work to get everything ready. No less hard at work were the Foreign Ministers' advance guard-U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup, Britain's Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, France's Alexandre Parodi-in an attempt to "harmonize" their nations' views on what ought to be the West's strategy...
...Curie's reception provoked an angry international uproar. Alexandre Parodi, France's delegate to the United Nations, pronounced the incident "regrettable." In Washington, the State Department got urgent calls from the French Embassy. Next day Attorney General Tom C. Clark ordered Mme. Joliot-Curie released-but not before she had spent a night under detention at Ellis Island. Mme. Curie, who says she is not a Communist but agrees with Communists on many things, said she was not surprised at her treatment...
...Friday, a victory for partition looked probable. But when the Assembly president, Brazil's Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, was about to call for a vote, the Arabs won another delay. France's Alexandre Parodi rose. France, afraid of unrest among her 13,000,000 Moslem nationals in North Africa, hesitated to support partition. "We have come to the moment of decision," said Parodi, "and I feel certain misgivings. . . ." Was there really no possible ground for compromise, he wondered? Parodi got a 24-hour recess...
...votes against this proposal," rasped Council President El Khoury of Syria last week, "was cast by a permanent member. . . . Therefore, he frustrated the proposal." This time, El Khoury was not talking about the Russians, who have cast 18 vetoes. He meant Alexandre Parodi, delegate of France, whose only previous veto had been a joint affair with Andrei Gromyko more than a year ago. Last week, on his own, Parodi had parodied Gromyko...
Judged by assurances at San Francisco that the veto was really a last resort, Parodi had gone rather far. The Russians had proposed to send a U.N. mission to Indonesia to see what was going on between the Indonesians and the Dutch. A majority was agreeable. The French vetoed it because they feared a precedent which might some day lead to similar missions into France's own troubled colonial world. The French seemed to be helping to establish another precedent: that the veto could be used for almost anything, including weak nerves...