Word: rejects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which one of his advisers defined as "mystique" were to the other ministers the heart and soul of the treaty. Mendès confronted the conference with what he felt was the inescapable alternative. France would be put in an "extremely delicate situation"; the National Assembly would reject EDC in any form, Mendès-France would fall, a leftist, Popular-Front-type government would succeed him. All this, warned Mendès, would be "a free gift to the Russians...
...headline NEW DEPARTMENT, the Trib said matter-of-factly: "That its readers may have the benefit of other views in judging issues of national and international policy, the Tribune is instituting a department on this page designated 'The Other Side,' [reprinting] editorials from other newspapers which generally reject judgments sharply opposed...
...Blow. Last week, by a decisive vote of 505,000 to 223,000, the miners turned Nye and his policies down, and picked Gaitskell. To make the matter doubly clear, they rejected by a similar margin Bevan's starfcl against German rearmament. The vote was emphatic indication that despite the noisy outcry, Britons still reject the easy panacea of neutralism...
...trick will be to find something the French Assembly will accept and other member nations of EDC will not reject. Possible Gallic compromise: ratify the EDC treaty, but with two reservations in added protocols-that "unanimity of vote" should be required for the first five years (thus giving France a veto on any action it dislikes) and an escape clause allowing France to get out after ten years. At least Mendès is the first French Premier to set a deadline on submitting the EDC proposals to the Assembly for a yes or no vote...
Trade v. Aid. Others came to the aid of the Swiss. The C.I.O. appealed to Eisenhower to reject the Tariff Commission's recommendation, pointing out that the importation of Swiss movements created "substantial subsidiary employment" in the U.S. (about 15,000 workers make cases and straps, assemble watches, etc.). The American Farm Bureau Federation also asked Eisenhower to reject the tariff increase because Switzerland buys $11 per capita in U.S. farm products...