Word: royalism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their efforts, the Chinese could not organize a search big enough to trap the Dalai Lama. Proceeding mostly at night to avoid Red spotter planes, the royal fugitive dispensed with all ritual. (Normally, any place where the Dalai Lama stays automatically becomes sacred and may not be used again as a dwelling.) Once across the Tsangpo and protected by jubilant Khamba tribesmen, he took a course unanticipated by the Chinese, headed for the Indian border town of Towang in the wild and wooded plateau region of Assam province...
...Elysée Palace, Charles de Gaulle took a seat in solitary grandeur upon an orchestra platform, signaled the beginning of the first press conference ever given by a French President. In the hour that followed, the 600 newsmen present witnessed the closest thing to a royal audience that France has seen since the days of Napoleon III. While the Cabinet of the Fifth Republic sat in dutiful silence at the foot of his dais, De Gaulle announced that he himself would speak for France at the prospective summit meeting-though, naturally, "with Premier Michel Debré at my side...
...royal manner, De Gaulle was well aware that there was disaffection in his realm. Dryly, he conceded that Communist gains in France's municipal elections (TIME, March 23) stemmed in part from discontent with his austerity program. The press ("Excuse me. Messieurs les journalistes") had not accented the positive about austerity: the franc had been devalued by 17%, yet prices had since risen only 4%. "Now," said De Gaulle proudly, "we can meet any form of public expenditure without inflation. It is 20 years since that has happened. The value of our currency is uncontested in the world...
...Harvard Rugby Club added two games to its victory skein in Bermuda last week, and came away the winner of the Inter-Collegiate Rugby Competition. After an exhibition loss to the Royal Canadian Navy team, the Crimson downed M.I.T. and Amherst to win the title...
...dissatisfaction, the French were influential only in the sense that a French maid is influential in getting the dishes washed. With the arrival of the Depression, some of the Calvinists found themselves washing their own dishes in the gloomy loneliness of their homes high up the slope of Mount Royal...