Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cabinet session-the longest anyone in Paris could remember. Faure asked the conservatives in his right-center coalition to accept the "double dismissal plan" he had worked out with Morocco's leaders (TIME, Sept. 5). The hardest man to convince was Faure's own Foreign Minister, Antoine Pinay, whose right-wing Independents are strongly influenced by the pro-colon lobby in the French National Assembly. As the long angry afternoon wore on, little groups of Ministers broke out of the chamber to cool off in the garden. Before the session ended, both Pinay and Faure had threatened...
...Pinay had the tough task of opposing Faure enough to satisfy his own conservative supporters, but. not enough to bring the government down. In the end, he shifted his position and accepted Faure's plan. Defense Minister Pierre Koenig went along, too, announcing with a martyred air: "I will suffer your solution...
...foreign affairs, Faure had pushed the Paris accords through the Senate to final ratification. He claimed credit for "taking the initiative"for the conference at the summit, and he had just gained added popularity among French neutralists by accepting an urgent invitation for himself and Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay to visit Moscow early in October...
...Russians sat stock still. Foreign Minister Pinay muttered audibly: "Il les a eus" (He got them). As Ike paused"for the translation of his remarks, there was a clap of thunder and the lights went out. "I didn't mean to turn the lights out," said Ike with a laugh. The translators droned on in the gloom...
...minis ters and 260 delegates representing 60 of the 81 countries on earth. They were met by the Golden Gate to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the U.N. ; four of them - Russia's Vyacheslav Molotov, Great Britain's Harold Macmillan. France's Antoine Pinay and the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles - expected to fix up the housekeeping and feel out the climate for the Parley at the Summit in Geneva...