Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Foreign Minister of France was outraged. "The decision you are about to make," said Antoine Pinay to the U.N.'s General Assembly, "is more serious for the United Nations than for France, for the whole future of our organization is at stake...
Tomorrow's Consequence. Trembling with anger, dapper Antoine Pinay climbed back to the Assembly rostrum. "Twice I have warned the Assembly of the consequences of a violation of the Charter. An assault of passion and demagogy has led the Assembly to disregard the recommendations of its General Committee . . . My government refuses to accept any intervention of the U.N. . . . My government will consider as null and void any recommendation which the Assembly might make in this connection...
...Pinay paused. "I must add . . . that I do not know what will be the consequence tomorrow of this vote." Pinay walked stiffly back to France's place on the Assembly floor, gathered up his papers and his aides, and led them silently out of the United Nations...
From Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Pinay telephoned Paris to report his action to Premier Edgar Faure. "You did the right thing by walking out," said Faure. He gave Pinay fresh orders, and next day they were carried out: Pinay and his staff flew home. There, to show France's anger at the Soviet vote in the Assembly, Faure and Pinay immediately agreed to postpone their scheduled visit to Russia. The Cabinet decided to keep its delegation out of the Assembly session, but not quit the U.N. entirely...
...Virgins. In the two weeks since, the government of France has all but fallen apart. Foreign Minister Pinay objected that he had not been consulted on the wording, and President Coty's letter was withdrawn. The Defense Minister, retired Gaullist General Pierre Koenig, declared his opposition to the whole plan. Deputies demonstrated in the Assembly, and Pierre Montel, chairman of the Assembly's Defense Committee, flew to Morocco to urge Sultan Arafa to refuse to leave the throne. Marshal Alphonse Juin, NATO's Central European commander and France's top military man, publicly denounced Faure...