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...name: 1. Joseph Laniel. 4. Georges Bidault...
...time of small men, however parlous the time, the small men carry on, sometimes gamely. Last week France's durable Premier Joseph Laniel-whose government has lasted for almost seven months, longer than the average for the Fourth Republic-mounted the eight carpeted steps to the National Assembly's rostrum, put on gold-rimmed glasses and read a 45-minute speech. Purpose: to win a vote of confidence so that Laniel's government would stay alive and Laniel's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault could go to the Four-Power Conference in Berlin...
Surveying the domestic scene, Joseph Laniel pointed out proudly that the treasury was in much better shape than he found it last summer. For six months there had been no inflationary movement; the "parallel" (black-market) rate for the dollar had fallen 30 points. Foreign sales in November were the highest in 29 months. In July there was only $13 million "in the till": now there is $457 million, with another $71 million soon to be added...
...foreign affairs, Laniel was cautious. On EDC: "In the weeks following the Berlin conference it will be up to the French parliament to take definite decisions. Any postponement . . . would then be inadmissible." On the Big-Four meeting: "We have the firm will to sacrifice no serious chance, in our relations with Russia, of improving the international climate." On Indo-China: "We desire peace. We wish to negotiate...
...Joseph Laniel wound up bravely by demanding that the Deputies vote flatly for him or against him, saying that it would be better to have a Cabinet crisis then & there, rather than another weak vote (marred by abstentions), such as the one that preceded Bermuda. Result: a solid vote of confidence, 319 to 249, with the bulk of the noes coming from Communists and Socialists. Conservative papers (Figaro, L'Aurore) proudly called the favorable vote a "reinvestiture." The left-wing Franc-Tireur mocked: "Here he is consenting once more to become Mr. Interim." No one needed to point...