Word: poncet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast to the days when Hitler, Göring, Goebbels, Ribbentrop and Himmler were among the festival bigwigs, this year's list of honored guests is heavy with Americans, Britons and Frenchmen. Among them: Allied High Commissioners John J. McCloy, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, André François-Poncet. All festival tickets were gone a month ago (best seats: $11.90 a performance...
...third step was a bid for German participation in West Europe's defense. Acting for NATO, the Allied High Commissioners in Germany-the U.S.'s John J. McCloy, Britain's Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick and France's Andre Francois-Poncet-quickly conferred with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. After a five-hour meeting in the Petersberg, the conferees agreed 1) to discuss a new "political basis" for relations between Western Germany and the Western Allies, and 2) to organize a military committee* that would study "the scale and manner" of the German contribution to West Europe...
...Schumacher talked himself into the position of wanting all or nothing. After heated debate, the Bonn Assembly sided with Adenauer, voted 220-152 to join the Council. Said Konrad Adenauer exultantly, "Germany's road to Europe is now open." Wrote French High Commissioner Andre François-Poncet in a letter to Adenauer: "I am convinced [this step] will have as favorable results for your country as for the cause of solidarity among the European nations...
...World?" Last week Germans were aroused and enraged by a report that France had signed with the French-run Saar government a so-year lease of the Saar coal mines. German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer asked French High Commissioner Andre Frangois-Poncet for a copy of the agreement. François-Poncet obliged. Later Adenauer called the French officials for "clarification" of some points in the document. François-Poncet obliged again...
...French came back stridently. Their High Commissioner for Germany, Andre François-Poncet, demanded a retraction of Dehler's tirade. In Paris, a national assemblyman howled: "There is no difference between the Bonn government and the Nazis. German methods and mentality are always the same...