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These small and medium-sized enterprises have strong influence in the National Assembly. They have formed the political basis of all the French governments of the last years, particularly those of Pinay and Laniel. Today these men of the old regime are trying very hard to bring the new government down. They tried to do so in the confused EDC debate. Their big offensive failed. They have now opted for a classic gambit in the history of nations: they appealed to foreign powers. These "friends of America" messaged Washington and even Bonn that the new government had dangerous schemes...
After the Battle. Mendès retired to his country retreat at Marly, relaxing in slacks and sweater. On the littered political field of battle, musketry still rattled and firing squads went about their melancholy tasks. Reynaud, Pinay, Schuman, Bidault, Pleven and Laniel issued a defiant pledge that they would never give up the fight for EDC. The Socialist Party expelled Jules Moch and two other prominent anti-EDC rebels. The M.R.P. expelled three. Three pro-EDC Ministers resigned from the Cabinet, exactly counterbalancing the three anti-EDC Gaullists who had resigned three weeks ago in protest against Mend...
...Pool. By custom, the search for a new Premier to replace the downfallen Joseph Laniel began with the man who had been most vigorous in opposition. That took President Coty straight to Mendès-France, a confident, energetic lawyer and economist...
...cannot see the world with their eyes ... It is possible to end the disorder immediately, but it is not this government that can do it." Just Short of a Year. As a maneuver to head off the inevitable, Bidault's Cath olic M.R.P., biggest party in Laniel's coalition, raised the bogey of "dissolution" - the constitutional provision that stipulates that the National Assembly may be dissolved and new national elec tions held if within 18 months two cabinets are overturned by absolute major ities (at present, 314 votes) on votes of confidence. French politicians, anxious to hold...
...chance to form a new one, President Coty asked Mendès-France to try. He would have a hard time without the Communist vote, which he spurns, and without Bidault's M.R.P., which spurns him. Communists the world over may well have calculated that the fall of Laniel would produce a surrender government in France. But an unfavorable vote for Mendès-France would be a significant rebuff to Moscow...