Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germanys. As the Russian began to speak, John Foster Dulles made notes, France's Pinay chain-smoked, Britain's Macmillan sat erect as a Grenadier Guardsman (which he once was). Harshly Molotov plunged in. He rejected out of hand the West's plan for German unity. He accused the Western powers-including, of all people, the French-of seeking "a revival of German militarism." What the West wants, he said, is to re-establish throughout Germany "the rule of big monopolies, Junker and militarists" and to "liquidate the social gains of the [East German Communist Republic...
After a moment's silence, John Foster Dulles asked for time out. Over drinks in the delegates' bar, he agreed with Macmillan and Pinay that the conference must go on, but that the West should delay its reply until the next...
...really surprised that Mr. Molotov should assume, as he apparently does, that under conditions of free elections, where the people have the right to see and examine what is going on, they will reject the East German regime," said Dulles. France's Pinay sardonically pointed out that the East Germans themselves did not seem to appreciate the "social achievements" Molotov wanted to protect. "Three million Germans have fled from Herr Grotewohl's paradise since 1945," Pinay pointed out, "and the exodus is still going on, and increasing...
Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay flew back from the foreign ministers' conference in Geneva especially to confer with him. At the end of two hours' talk, Ben Youssef was graciously understanding. He spoke soberly of "a Franco-Moroccan interdependence," and dispatched a "message of hope, of wisdom and of reconciliation" to the Moroccan people...
That Special Poison. As the Deputies reassembled to decide Faure's fate, General Adolphe Aumeran, spokesman for Algeria's bitterest diehards, said cavernously: "The fall of the Cabinet would only have happy consequences." But most Deputies were in a chastened mood. Stubby little Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay spent hours in corridors and offices whipping his moderates and rightists into line. If they were counting on him to replace Faure, he told them, they were wrong. He would flatly refuse to accept the premiership. "If the government is overthrown," he said, "it will mean rejection of the European statute...