Word: laniel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quick-truce faction, told everybody who would listen: "We must get peace!" For two days Bidault had to mark time while the Assembly debated a vote of confidence. "A Foreign Minister does not negotiate while his policy is being debated behind his back," he snapped to Premier Laniel on the phone...
...shock came at the first meeting of the three foreign ministers Thursday morning. Dulles and Eden found Bidault in a highly emotional state over Dienbienphu and the perilous prospects of the Laniel government. Because of Bidault's agitation, all Dulles was able to get was agreement on a note rejecting Moscow's demands for equal status for Red China at Geneva...
Midnight Talk. After more than two hours of glum consultation, the three separated. Dulles went off to see Premier Laniel, who formally asked him for help from U.S. air forces. Eden flew back to London, drove directly to Prime Minister Churchill's country home Chequers for a midnight talk. Next morning Churchill called Britain's top military men to an emergency Cabinet meeting-the first time the Cabinet has been summoned on a Sunday in nearly seven years. The Cabinet made the reluctant decision that they could not send either troops or planes to help the harassed French...
Born. To Paul Reynaud, 75, Premier of France at the time of the Nazi invasion in 1940, now one of three Vice Premiers under Premier Joseph Laniel, and his second wife. Christiane Mabire Reynaud, 40, his onetime secretary: their third child (his fourth, a son; in Paris. Name: Alexandre. Weight...
...avoid hard decisions and, if possible, even forthright expressions of opinion. Under Henri Queuille, the colorless compromiser, this technique made a name for itself: L'im-mobilisme. Queuille hung on as Premier for 388 days-a record for postwar France. Last week France's postwar Premier, Joseph Laniel, was hot on Queuille's trail. By an astute and unflagging practice of immobilisme, plus luck, Laniel passed the second-best (290-day) mark, set by Antoine Pinay, his arch rival in the Independent Party. If Laniel can last another 100 days, he will beat Queuille's record...