Word: laniel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next came the French. Joseph Laniel, the husky, stolid Norman industrialist who governs precariously as France's 19th postwar Premier, slipped in like a silent bystander, unable to speak English, unwilling to say much anyway-lest it offend those back home who were considering him as a candidate for France's next President. At his side was pale, ailing Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. The two Frenchmen mistrust each other; in fact, through the 18-hour flight from Paris, the Premier spoke not a word to the Foreign Minister. Neither was sure he would even be in office...
...courtesy, Sir Winston nominated Ike to be chairman. First subject: Soviet Russia's intentions. Eisenhower invited Laniel to speak first. Laniel motioned to Georges Bidault to speak for him, then sat sucking on a balky cigarette. Russia, said Bidault, is stepping up its attempt to divide the allies; Moscow has of late been making particularly gracious gestures toward the French. He believed the new Soviet regime wanted time to consolidate and improve conditions inside Russia. Sir Winston sat slumped in his chair, head down, glasses at nose's end, seeming to nod only to straighten up when prodded...
Premier Joseph Laniel is for EDC-conditionally. Said Laniel to the French National Assembly: "For my part I refuse to seek solutions to the difficulties of the hour in equivocation or delay. I am for Europe. I say it clearly. But on certain conditions, which I have stated no less clearly...
...Laniel, whose government must resign in January when France inaugurates a new President, was trying to get some sort of moral support (not ratification) for EDC out of the Assembly, to give his lameduck government a little more standing at Bermuda. The Premier watered his resolution down as far as he could without draining it of all meaning: "The National Assembly . . . asks for assurances that the policy of building a united Europe will be continued . . ." Then Laniel put the squeeze on the Deputies by submitting the resolution to a vote of confidence. This meant that, if the measure was voted...
...years of war, wishes to have an armistice, [we] will be ready to meet the French proposal." The conditions? Said Ho: "The French government has to stop hostilities." In Paris, one Cabinet minister remarked that Ho's terms should not be considered, and was sharply rebuked by Premier Laniel's office. The proposal, said the chairman of the Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, should be studied seriously...