Word: governance
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According to the U.S. embassy's anxious counters, there is still a slight numerical majority for EDC in the French National Assembly. The difficulty is that a majority that could be put together to pass EDC is not a majority that could govern the country. There are two majorities in the chamber: one for internal policy, one for foreign policy. The Laniel government is a precarious internal majority, essentially a right-of-center group. The Socialists will not join it. On a vote for EDC, the Socialists would support Laniel, but the Gaullists would desert him. Without the Gaullists...
Laniel and Bidault are representatives of a government that may only govern France until the middle of January. At that time, when their country elects a new president, they must automatically resign their posts for a now national election
Deserve to Be Immortal. In his 72 years of life (he died in 1936), Miguel de Unamuno was forever in trouble. A fiery liberal, he was once exiled by Primo de Rivera, accused Alfonso XIII of being "unfit" to govern, attacked the republic and the rebels in turn, was finally dismissed by Franco. Though passionately religious, he could find no proof in logic for the immortality of the soul, felt that the only thing man could do was to "spend your life so that you deserve to be immortal." To some segments of official Spain, Unamuno was a heretic...
...perversely, the debate would bring down his Cabinet, which contains no Socialists but does have several Gaullist ministers, all strongly opposed to EDC. The dilemma: without the Socialists, who oppose his domestic policies, Laniel cannot get ratification of EDC; without the Gaullists, who oppose EDC, he cannot govern France...
...nation, gifted by God with the reason and the will to govern ourselves, and returning our thanks to him by respecting his supreme creation-the free individual...