Word: laniel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gaullist party defeated two ex-Premiers, Joseph Laniel and, most surprising of all, Pierre Mendès-France (after 26 years in Parliament...
...shaken and depressed. Former Premier Pierre Mendès-France, playing shrewdly on France's century-old fear of German domination, had belabored the proposal in language and innuendo all but identical to that used by the Communist orators. Worse yet. four other former Premiers-Edgar Faure. Joseph Laniel, Antoine Pinay and Paul Reynaud-lent their names to a motion that demanded as the price of French participation that the other five nations must agree to put up capital for France's overseas territo ries, while giving France complete control over the spending of the money...
Unwitting Blunder. The answers were electrifying. Faure, who bears Mollet a deep grudge, had drafted the motion and stood by it. But Laniel confessed that he had never seen the text-"They just read me something over the telephone"-and publicly disavowed it. So did Pinay. Bird-like old Paul Reynaud, 78, determined to make amends for his unwitting blunder, bounced up to the speaker's rostrum to express his wholehearted approval of the Common Market. He was, rasped Reynaud, tired of "anthologies" of reasons for staying out of the Common Market. "These reasons," he said, "resolve into...
Predictably, the most vocal opponents of French participation in the Common Market were the Communists (who dismissed the whole thing as a "Vatican conspiracy") and the right wing led by ex-Premiers Antoine Pinay, Paul Reynaud, Edgar Faure and Joseph Laniel. The bitterest-and most surprising-attack was delivered by ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France, the man who once talked boldly of "opening the windows" of the French economy. Now Mendes, whose political influence has greatly diminished, argued that opening the windows so high would drive out French capital and bring in unemployed...
...Tunisia, Faure told the Assembly, "home rule had been promised. It is now accomplished." But what the Deputies were waiting to hear was what Faure proposed to do about seething Algeria and Morocco. Each was well aware that two years ago, Premier Joseph Laniel had only waited until they left town before deposing Morocco's Sultan Ben Yussef and installing Sultan Ben Moulay Arafa in his stead. Now the diehards in the Assembly suspected Edgar Faure of only waiting for the same chance to depose weak-willed Sultan Ben Moulay Arafa in his turn...