Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Then France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman made a gesture toward the go-slowly British. He argued that the French defense plan "does not imply creation of a superstate, but only of special institutions in a restricted field." Next, for the benefit of the equality-conscious Germans, Schuman said: "No discrimination will be made between the participating powers." (It was reported that France now agreed to German troops at the regimental level.) The Assembly gave Schuman an ovation; by a heavy majority, it voted for a European army with German participation...
...taken Europe seven months to reach this notable stage in its quest for unity. At a cabinet meeting in May 1950, France's able Robert Schuman had drawn from his briefcase the dramatic proposal to integrate French and German coal mines and steel mills. More, he said, was at stake than an economic rationalization. His plan would dispel the war-breeding rivalry over the Ruhr's heavy industries, would lay a base for Continental cooperation ("The rallying of European nations requires that the secular opposition of France and Germany be eliminated"). Though the plan bore Schuman...
...French police arrested René once again. Locked up in prison, he feigned insanity and was ordered transferred at once to a psychiatric hospital at Villejuif. He walked out of the hospital with no trouble...
...beginning of a fighting force to stand against Communist aggression. Eddy's command will consist at first of the 1st Infantry Division and an armored constabulary division, and will soon absorb most of the 87,000 U.S. troops in Germany. Purposes of the move were 1) to show French and Germans that the U.S. means to defend West Germany, and 2) to provide a cadre for the absorption of more U.S. divisions when they can be released from Korea...
Landlocked Ethiopia once had a seacoast. It fringed the strategic waters where the Red Sea runs into the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean. In the 19th Century the British, the French and finally the Italians each grabbed themselves a wedge of Ethiopia's shore. In their portion called Eritrea (pop. 1,000,000; area 50,000 sq. mi.), the Italians of Benito Mussolini's Fascist era rebuilt the old city of Asmara. From Eritrea the Italians launched their conquest of Emperor Haile Selassie's domain. It took World War II to drive the Italians...