Word: laniel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beginning in Bordeaux. The strike began in Bordeaux among the poorly paid postal workers. Rumor gave it wings. French workers, squeezed in the economic scissors of higher prices and stationary wages, worried that the new Premier, Joseph Laniel, was planning to economize at their expense. They got their blow in first and walked...
...general stoppage. Catholic unions joined in; so did the Communists. After 24 hours, most of the Socialist and Catholic unionists began trooping back to work. Postal workers stayed out; so did the Communists, hoping to use the strike to bring down the government. This week, when Laniel's reforms were finally announced, the Reds ordered 270,000 Communist railroad men (more than half the total force) to stop the trains again. In some provincial towns, police and soldiers pitched in to sort the mail and started makeshift deliveries, but in Paris the mail sacks mounted higher and higher...
...truce in Korea increased the French government's hankering for a settlement in Indo-China. Said Premier Laniel last week: "France is now the only great nation at war, pursuing ... a battle in contempt of her own interests." In Paris, three alternatives are being examined by the Laniel cabinet: 1) continuing with the Navarre plan of fluid attack in the hope of finally wiping out the main resistance; 2) building up the native Vietnamese army to a point where it can take over the country's defense; 3) opening direct negotiations with Viet Minh Leader Ho Chi Minh...
France is not yet ready for Mendés-France's solutions. The expendable stand-in government of Premier Joseph Laniel was not talking truce last week, but it took the first move in setting up a situation from which advances might be made. It offered a larger measure of independence to Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam, the states of Indo-China, to encourage them to take a larger share in their own defense...
...being a model employer. Said Le Monde: "We are told his doctrine is on the right, and his heart is on the left, exactly what is needed for a majority of the center." Besides, all that the Assembly wanted was a "summer Premier" who would not disturb things much. Laniel obligingly named six former Premiers to his cabinet, keeping Bidault as Foreign Minister and Rene Pleven as Defense Minister, and making his old right-wing friend, Paul Reynaud, a deputy Premier...