Word: laniel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, the fall of the Laniel government in Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS) knocked still another hole in the West's armor, and exposed weaknesses both in Europe and Asia...
...what could the West save at Geneva? Laniel had publicly declared that France could not fight on without help...
...government of Millionaire Joseph Laniel had survived two Indo-China debates (the last by only two votes). The opposition insisted on a third debate...
...Laniel tried to head it off by asking the National Assembly simply to "note," not even approve, his government's Indo-China war policy and let the matter...
Then Premier Laniel made up his mind, announced that the Russian ballet would be postponed indefinitely. The press, and not alone the left-wing papers, jumped on Laniel's decision ("Your gesture is not French"). It was the first victory France had won against Communism in a long time-and few Frenchmen were proud of it. At week's end the troupe trooped to the airport, leaving behind it an accusing statement by the Russian dancers' Director Tchoulaki."Faced with this unfavorable attitude on the part of the French government," it read, "the Russian government has decided...