Word: ren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, while the press fumed, Defense Minister René Pleven assured the Assembly that, although the fall of Nghialo was "painful for our prestige and losses we have suffered," neither the "means to fight" the six-year-long war nor the "ability to maneuver" had been lost. But a gloomy reserve officer said: "It looks as though from now on the Indo-Chinese war is to be a permanent nightmare...
Some Paris newspapers called his speech a turning point in French foreign policy. But support for ratification came from such veteran statesmen as René Pleven and Paul Reynaud, who argued that the plan to bring West German troops into a European army is specifically designed to prevent the rebirth of the Wehrmacht. Premier Antoine Pinay, who needs the support of the Radical Socialists (75 seats) to stay in power, was quoted as saying: "I am for a European army...
Roussel: The Spider's Feast (Paris Philharmonic conducted by René Leibowitz; Esoteric). The composer's most popular work, in an LP première. The music was written for a ballet (vintage 1912) about insects, but it is a work of freshness and real symphonic flow...
...scion of the plain, untitled Scrymgeours was lanky Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, Conservative M.P. for Western Ren few and Under Secretary of State for Scotland. After 2½ centuries of collecting scraps of evidence, the Scrymgeours were now ready to lay claim to the Dudhope viscountcy, but hesitated to do so because Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn did not wish to resign his parliamentary job. In the 1945 Labor landslide, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn lost his seat, and the family presented its case...
...days he reads, dashes off memos and receives a steady stream of callers who come for inspiration, discipline or orders. A lively boxer named Ajax sits at his feet; a charming German widow of 32 is secretary, nurse and traveling companion. "I have no private life," explains Frau Annemarie Ren-ger, who grew up with Socialism, lost her husband in the war and came to Kurt Schumacher offering to be "his right arm and left leg." She watches over his smoking (ten denicotinized cigarettes and one cigar a day) and his rest (ten to twelve hours...