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...unions were trying to force a reconvening of the National Assembly-the Socialists and Catholics in real hope of a solution, or at least a graceful pretext for going back to work, the Communists in hope of a brawl that would worsen the nation's plight. Laniel was conferring with the Force Ouvrière and Catholic leaders, but not with the Reds...
...Popular Front?" Actually, Laniel's reforms were more feared than fearsome. Pensions would be lowered, rents slightly raised, the swollen French bureaucracy would be lightened by the dismissal of 4,000 temporary clerks. These were the kinds of cuts a rightist government could be expected to make, but they did not get to the heart of the ailing French economy (see below). They merely convinced the workers that the cabinet intended an assault on the French welfare state...
Beginning in Bordeaux. The strike began in Bordeaux among the poorly paid postal workers. Rumor gave it wings. French workers, squeezed in the economic scissors of higher prices and stationary wages, worried that the new Premier, Joseph Laniel, was planning to economize at their expense. They got their blow in first and walked...
...general stoppage. Catholic unions joined in; so did the Communists. After 24 hours, most of the Socialist and Catholic unionists began trooping back to work. Postal workers stayed out; so did the Communists, hoping to use the strike to bring down the government. This week, when Laniel's reforms were finally announced, the Reds ordered 270,000 Communist railroad men (more than half the total force) to stop the trains again. In some provincial towns, police and soldiers pitched in to sort the mail and started makeshift deliveries, but in Paris the mail sacks mounted higher and higher...
...every day, for nearly nine years. To show for this, France has all those things that the Mutual Security Agency is justifiably proud of helping rebuild: a humming industry, a well-tended countryside that, to drive through, seems to glow with prosperity. Yet Premier Laniel's government faces a deficit of more than 600 billion francs-$1.7 billion. France owes her European neighbors $824 million; her reserves of gold and foreign currency are down to $613 million-less than tiny Holland's. Things got so bad that in April and May the U.S. put up an extra...