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...month tenure as Premier. The count showed 289 votes for, 287 against, with 33 abstentions. The French press called the result a "suspended sentence," and many a man in the street concluded that the Deputies, acting in psychic accord, had engineered the two-vote margin as a stinging reproof to Laniel. Bringing down Laniel could have caused new elections, and the Deputies' own seats would have been in jeopardy. Three Gaullists who had intended to abstain changed their minds and voted for Laniel...
...During those two months, I had more freedom than I had in all the 21 years in the party. I felt, for the first time in my adult life, that if I had an opinion about something I could express it any way I wanted without fear of reproof from someone higher up." She believes that she would have made no open break if the party had not stubbornly attempted to force her back into the Communist routine. "I was beset on all sides...
King Farouk, whose own position was rendered almost as shaky as that of the British by the hog-wild nationalist uprising, abruptly fired the lot of them, with ironic thanks "for what you have done" and a reproof for failing to keep "security and order." To form the new government, he appointed an old friend and adviser: Aly Maher Pasha, 68, one of the richest men in Egypt, who has served twice be fore as Premier. As Chief of the Royal Cabinet when young Farouk first came to the throne as a boy of 16, Maher Pasha had formed...
...reporters, disappointed that the talk had not produced more news, Adenauer had sensible reproof. "It is accomplishment enough," he said, "that for the first time since the war, Franco-German talks have at last begun at the very top level. Why should we have been expected to begin [by settling] such a red-hot question...
...Knew It was much better written, naturally more authoritative, a rich mine of precepts-into-practice for students of warfare. A superior war book of a different kind was the late John Gilbert Winant's Letter from Grosvenor Square, a moving account of wartime faith that was a reproof to postwar disillusionment. Other solid achievements: the first two volumes of Samuel Eliot Morison's massive History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Professor William Langer's approving examination of Our Vichy Gamble, Major General John Deane's illuminating story of U.S. difficulties with...