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...truce in Korea increased the French government's hankering for a settlement in Indo-China. Said Premier Laniel last week: "France is now the only great nation at war, pursuing ... a battle in contempt of her own interests." In Paris, three alternatives are being examined by the Laniel cabinet: 1) continuing with the Navarre plan of fluid attack in the hope of finally wiping out the main resistance; 2) building up the native Vietnamese army to a point where it can take over the country's defense; 3) opening direct negotiations with Viet Minh Leader Ho Chi Minh...
France is not yet ready for Mendés-France's solutions. The expendable stand-in government of Premier Joseph Laniel was not talking truce last week, but it took the first move in setting up a situation from which advances might be made. It offered a larger measure of independence to Cambodia, Laos and Viet Nam, the states of Indo-China, to encourage them to take a larger share in their own defense...
Every Frenchman knows Calvados, the fiery Norman applejack, but few knew much about the man from Calvados. When Joseph Laniel rose in the tribunal of the National Assembly last week to make his bid to become Premier of France, he brought to that jaded assembly something of the freshness of the Normandy apple country he represents. A friendly, ruddy-faced man of 63, barrel-chested Assemblyman Laniel offered a "maybe-yes maybe-no" program with all the tight-fisted caution of a Norman farmer. After 36 days of bitter inter-party feuding, the fact that Joseph Laniel was relatively unknown...
...Laniel has represented the department of Calvados in the French Parlia ment for more than half a century. When old Henri Laniel, wealthy linen manufacturer, died in 1932, if seemed natural to Normans that son Joseph, a much-decorated artillery captain in World War I, should take his father's seat in the Assembly. Young Laniel achieved no particular distinction in politics, though in the dark days of 1940 he was for a time Under Secretary for Finance in Reynaud's ill-fated cabinet. When the Germans arrived, Laniel refused to operate the family linen factory...
...being a model employer. Said Le Monde: "We are told his doctrine is on the right, and his heart is on the left, exactly what is needed for a majority of the center." Besides, all that the Assembly wanted was a "summer Premier" who would not disturb things much. Laniel obligingly named six former Premiers to his cabinet, keeping Bidault as Foreign Minister and Rene Pleven as Defense Minister, and making his old right-wing friend, Paul Reynaud, a deputy Premier...