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...week's Big Three conference in Bermuda: deciding when and where and with what objectives to meet the Russians. The most important problem turned around the French attitude toward EDC. The dimness of EDC's prospects in the French National Assembly became obvious last week when the Laniel government barely survived a confidence vote (275 to 244, with 103 abstentions) on a resolution weakly supporting "the policy of building a united Europe" (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...golf course when word came that West Point had won a famous victory (see SPORT). At vacation's end the Columbine took the President back to Washington, where he would have a few days to polish his arguments for the encounter at Bermuda with France's Laniel and Britain's Churchill...
Premier Joseph Laniel is for EDC-conditionally. Said Laniel to the French National Assembly: "For my part I refuse to seek solutions to the difficulties of the hour in equivocation or delay. I am for Europe. I say it clearly. But on certain conditions, which I have stated no less clearly...
...Laniel, whose government must resign in January when France inaugurates a new President, was trying to get some sort of moral support (not ratification) for EDC out of the Assembly, to give his lameduck government a little more standing at Bermuda. The Premier watered his resolution down as far as he could without draining it of all meaning: "The National Assembly . . . asks for assurances that the policy of building a united Europe will be continued . . ." Then Laniel put the squeeze on the Deputies by submitting the resolution to a vote of confidence. This meant that, if the measure was voted...
...years of war, wishes to have an armistice, [we] will be ready to meet the French proposal." The conditions? Said Ho: "The French government has to stop hostilities." In Paris, one Cabinet minister remarked that Ho's terms should not be considered, and was sharply rebuked by Premier Laniel's office. The proposal, said the chairman of the Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, should be studied seriously...