Word: laniel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time of small men, however parlous the time, the small men carry on, sometimes gamely. Last week France's durable Premier Joseph Laniel-whose government has lasted for almost seven months, longer than the average for the Fourth Republic-mounted the eight carpeted steps to the National Assembly's rostrum, put on gold-rimmed glasses and read a 45-minute speech. Purpose: to win a vote of confidence so that Laniel's government would stay alive and Laniel's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault could go to the Four-Power Conference in Berlin...
Surveying the domestic scene, Joseph Laniel pointed out proudly that the treasury was in much better shape than he found it last summer. For six months there had been no inflationary movement; the "parallel" (black-market) rate for the dollar had fallen 30 points. Foreign sales in November were the highest in 29 months. In July there was only $13 million "in the till": now there is $457 million, with another $71 million soon to be added...
...since outgoing President Vincent Auriol is still in office, Coty stays out of sight at all diplomatic ceremonies so no one will be confused by double-headed protocol. Last week France's Presidents, old and new, worked together on another matter: to keep the government of Premier Joseph Laniel on its feet for the Four Power Conference at Berlin...
Tradition, but not law, requires the Premier to resign when a new President takes office. Last week it was agreed that Laniel would tender his resignation this week; that Auriol, with Coty's concurrence, would refuse the resignation and ask the Premier to continue in office; that Laniel would then go before the National Assembly and request a vote of confidence. Many embittered Deputies who would like to bring down the Laniel government might be inclined to wait, knowing that their chance will come in due time and that the next Cabinet crisis, when it happens, will probably...
Premier Joseph Laniel, who had led most of the way and was at one point a hair's breadth from victory, saw that he could not win. He approved three other candidates, all from his own conservative Independent Republican Party. Of these, the one who proved most acceptable was a 71-year-old Senator named René Coty. On the eleventh ballot, Coty had 71 votes; on the twelfth, 431; on the 13th, he had 477-more than enough to win. Sad and tired, Loser Laniel congratulated...