Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...French and Germans were hissing and snarling at each other over the Saar region again...
...fortnight of caterwauling nationalism, the German press screamed that the French were plotting economic annexation of the Saar. Bonn's Minister of Justice Thomas Dehler scoffed at French fears. German aggression, he said, was a "fairy tale"; German responsibility for the first World War had been no greater than France's. "Hitler," he shouted, "was a product of the Versailles treaty and of France's own despondency." To emphasize the Saar issue, the Bonn government called off a trade parley with the Quai d'Orsay...
...French came back stridently. Their High Commissioner for Germany, Andre François-Poncet, demanded a retraction of Dehler's tirade. In Paris, a national assemblyman howled: "There is no difference between the Bonn government and the Nazis. German methods and mentality are always the same...
This week, as the caterwauling subsided, French and Germans resumed trade talks in Paris and signed a $300 million agreement for the next six months...
Charles Laughton as Maigret is as French as 40 million aperatifs. He more than lives up to the reputation of the French police in tracking down the murderer of an aging and wealthy American matron, while winning the undivided support of the audience for his faith in the innocence of suspect number one (whom you know is guiltless all the way). But in balancing the scales of justice, Maigret nearly meets his match in a manic-depressive named Radek, the actual culprit, who is more than competently portrayed by Franchot Tone...