Word: rearmaments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of Mendes-France's important actions during his Premiership were undertaken to meet grave foreign policy crises facing France during 1954. Indochina, German rearmament, and North Africa all demanded prompt decision; probably no French political leader but Mendes-France would have approached them with such determination. His real concern, however, was with economic problems. Foreign policy was an unfortunate diversion, keeping him from his ambitious project of clearing the deadwood from French industry and agriculture. Largely, Mendes-France's fall was due to the personal hatreds and the petty politics of some members of the National Assembly. Mendes-France...
...added: "We must give priority to the unification of our country over lasting ties with the West." One night last week in Frankfurt, Socialists, in concert with the powerful trade-union movement (6,000,000 members), held the first of what they promised will be 1,000 meetings against rearmament in the next month...
...just after the liberation of France earned him the enduring enmity of French Reds. But he is also no friend of the U.S.: during his anthropological work he became convinced that south of the Rio Grande the U.S. is a nasty old imperialist. His brilliant, biting speeches against German rearmament helped kill EDC, and he has attacked Mendès' own Paris Accords...
...think about the fact that matters." N.Z.Z.'s interpretive stories on the facts have made it the most influential and widely respected daily published on the Continent. Strongly antiCommunist, the paper is also an outspoken friend of the U.S., a proponent of free capitalism, a supporter of German rearmament, and a skeptic about the possibilities of permanent peaceful coexistence. N.Z.Z. is in no hurry to print breaking news, and its tabloid-size format is dull. It prints titles instead of headlines, and its circulation (70,000) is small. Yet it is must reading for such diverse political experts...
President Eisenhower will consult with Conant the following week in Washington concerning German rearmament and West German independence. In addition, the recent fall of the Mendes-France government is expected to be one of the major topics of discussion. Conant will probably also attend hearings on the German budget...