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...Socialists had capriciously wrecked Georges Bidault's government (TIME, July 3). A few hours later, war broke out in Korea and France found itself vitally in need of a Foreign Minister with full credentials The Socialists would have liked to play hard-to-get a while longer, but they realized they would look like Neronic fiddlers if they prolonged the crisis in Paris. They would not accept Queuille's proposed "union coalition" of center parties, but they agreed not to oppose...
...France had seized the initiative in Western Europe by putting forth the Schuman Plan, it had looked as if the volatile French had finally settled down. But last week they went on a political spree again. Even as it was playing host to the Schuman Plan conference, Premier Georges Bidault's eight-month-old government lost a vote of confidence in the Assembly, was forced to resign...
...Socialists, who have brought down the last four French governments, defeated Bidault's coalition because he refused to grant a pay raise they had demanded for France's government employees. The Socialists thought that the raise would win them votes in the next election. Bidault thought that the raise, which would have cost the government some three billion francs ($9,000,000), would lead to other demands, eventually wreck his budget. Some felt that Bidault might have skirted a crisis by more adroit politicking. In any case, he walked right into it, said flatly: "These claims are often...
...Socialists said they were all for the Schuman Plan, but they regretfully voted Bidault out, anyway...
Atlantic Coordination. Neither London nor Washington had responded with enthusiasm to French Premier Georges Bidault's recent proposal for a supreme "Atlantic High Council." But all wanted something less grandiose that would pull together, within the framework of the North Atlantic Treaty, the varied work of the OEEC, the Council of Europe, the Brussels Treaty powers and U.N. agencies. A North Atlantic coordinating committee, composed of ambassadors and with a small secretariat, might be the outcome...