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Instead, the fall of the Laniel government in Paris (see FOREIGN NEWS) knocked still another hole in the West's armor, and exposed weaknesses both in Europe and Asia...
...what could the West save at Geneva? Laniel had publicly declared that France could not fight on without help...
...Joseph Laniel survived the balloting by the narrowest margin-two votes-of his 10½-month tenure as Premier. The count showed 289 votes for, 287 against, with 33 abstentions. The French press called the result a "suspended sentence," and many a man in the street concluded that the Deputies, acting in psychic accord, had engineered the two-vote margin as a stinging reproof to Laniel. Bringing down Laniel could have caused new elections, and the Deputies' own seats would have been in jeopardy. Three Gaullists who had intended to abstain changed their minds and voted for Laniel...
Said the right-wing pro-Gaullist L'Aurore: "This confidence vote had nothing to do with 'confidence.' " Said the right-wing independent Le Figaro: "The parties did not want to choke Laniel to death, they merely wanted to make it difficult for him to continue breathing." The left-wing Socialist Franc-Tireur: "By scientifically doctoring its votes, the Chamber has . . . condemned itself even more severely than it condemned the government...
Then Premier Laniel made up his mind, announced that the Russian ballet would be postponed indefinitely. The press, and not alone the left-wing papers, jumped on Laniel's decision ("Your gesture is not French"). It was the first victory France had won against Communism in a long time-and few Frenchmen were proud of it. At week's end the troupe trooped to the airport, leaving behind it an accusing statement by the Russian dancers' Director Tchoulaki."Faced with this unfavorable attitude on the part of the French government," it read, "the Russian government has decided...