Word: laniel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Assembly decisively rejected Laniel's attempt as too easy an out. The burly Premier, a dead cigar jutting from his impassive face, strode off the Assembly floor, took his Cabinet with him for a meeting with President Reneè Coty...
...handle the matter as a vote of confidence. "It is rationally unthinkable," commented Finance Minister Edgar Faure with a shake of his head, "but the fall of this government is passionately wanted." Word from Geneva. The desire of the Assembly might not be rational, but it was plain. The Laniel government had refrained from doing much of anything about anything, so as to offend...
...people-or at least the Assembly politicos-were tired of the Laniel crowd...
...cannot see the world with their eyes ... It is possible to end the disorder immediately, but it is not this government that can do it." Just Short of a Year. As a maneuver to head off the inevitable, Bidault's Cath olic M.R.P., biggest party in Laniel's coalition, raised the bogey of "dissolution" - the constitutional provision that stipulates that the National Assembly may be dissolved and new national elec tions held if within 18 months two cabinets are overturned by absolute major ities (at present, 314 votes) on votes of confidence. French politicians, anxious to hold...
...chance to form a new one, President Coty asked Mendès-France to try. He would have a hard time without the Communist vote, which he spurns, and without Bidault's M.R.P., which spurns him. Communists the world over may well have calculated that the fall of Laniel would produce a surrender government in France. But an unfavorable vote for Mendès-France would be a significant rebuff to Moscow...