Word: reversal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Housemasters, who approved with minor changes the Council and House Committees plan for extending room permissions to 11-p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, have as yet made no comment on the Administrative Board's revers of their stand. They may possibly express their opinions at the Faculty meeting.
TIME (Dec. 26) had reported that the French army's Chief of General Staff Georges Marie Joseph Revers had been relieved of duty because of a leak of French political secrets to IndoChina's Communists. For three weeks after the report was printed, the French government said not...
Bidault told the Assembly that the Paris police had picked up a young Indo-Chinese after a bus fight, found in his possession a top-secret report on Indo-China written by Revers. Police traced the report back to a "double or perhaps triple" informer and onetime embezzler named Roger...
The Ministry of National Defense examined the report in an effort to appraise the damage done by the leak. It concluded that the report, "while of a confidential political character, could not be considered as national defense secrets." Peyre and the other agents with whom he had dealt were released...