Word: laniel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cautiously, Premier Joseph Laniel and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault tried to extract a policy out of the paradox of a war France could find no way to win yet dared not lose. The Geneva Conference was not far off. The National Assembly demanded to know how the government proposed to stand when the diplomats at Geneva discussed Indo-China...
...Fears & Hesitations. In France, the opponents of EDC and the damners-with-faint-praise are motivated by a weird variety of fears and hesitations. Some despise and distrust Germany, and that overrides everything else; some (including Premier Joseph Laniel, who has made a career these past seven months of political survival) think of EDC as a dose of unpleasant medicine, to be stalled off as long as possible; some think that French sovereignty and pride outweigh considerations of security; some want to toy with the alternatives, or get more concessions-notably, German concessions on the Saar and U.S.-British guarantees...
...name: 1. Joseph Laniel. 4. Georges Bidault...
...foreign affairs, Laniel was cautious. On EDC: "In the weeks following the Berlin conference it will be up to the French parliament to take definite decisions. Any postponement . . . would then be inadmissible." On the Big-Four meeting: "We have the firm will to sacrifice no serious chance, in our relations with Russia, of improving the international climate." On Indo-China: "We desire peace. We wish to negotiate...
...Joseph Laniel wound up bravely by demanding that the Deputies vote flatly for him or against him, saying that it would be better to have a Cabinet crisis then & there, rather than another weak vote (marred by abstentions), such as the one that preceded Bermuda. Result: a solid vote of confidence, 319 to 249, with the bulk of the noes coming from Communists and Socialists. Conservative papers (Figaro, L'Aurore) proudly called the favorable vote a "reinvestiture." The left-wing Franc-Tireur mocked: "Here he is consenting once more to become Mr. Interim." No one needed to point...