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Native Wit. It was only the first blow of the week for Bidault. Bidault had sworn that if the Laniel government fell, he would remain at Geneva as representative of a caretaker government even if he had "to go back to France every two or three days and stump the country" for his policy. The actual vote (see below), with its majority of two, was almost...
...afternoon last week stocky, stolid Premier Joseph Laniel walked to the rostrum in the National Assembly, ran a stubby finger around his collar to loosen it, and began, in a flat, unemphatic voice, to read a speech. For the second time in eight days, to bolster France's search for peace at Geneva, Joseph Laniel was staking his Cabinet's continuation in office on a vote of confidence. He had survived the first vote (before the fall of Dienbienphu) by a comfortable margin, 311 to 262. This time he realized that his government might fall...
...Laniel first took up Dienbienphu: "The defeat must be explained by a sudden change in Viet Minh war methods, brought about with Chinese aid . . . The battle of Dienbienphu marks a turning point in the evolution of Viet Minh military strength. Our garrison had been caught by surprise." Snapped a Socialist Deputy:"We are still surprised...
...Carry On. Laniel continued:"The government has taken measures to provide our commander in chief with the means to carry on." It would send to Indo-China several more battalions of troops, crews and mechanics for 25 bombers, and two flotillas of naval craft, plus artillery, tanks and machine guns-but still no conscripts. Then he came to the crux of his plea for support: "I refuse to believe that at the present hour this Assembly intends to provoke a rupture of the negotiations . . . What other policy [than ours] do you propose? Some people seem to rely more upon...
Marshal Alphonse Juin, 66, France's No. 1 soldier, had provoked the "incident" when he publicly and stridently criticized EDC, then refused several summonses from Premier Laniel to come and explain (TIME, April 12). Laniel's Cabinet relieved Juin of his posts in French army councils, but kept him on the job as NATO's Central European commander, leaving further action to NATO itself. Marshal Juin told General Gruenther that as a French citizen he had previously felt free to speak out, but that, henceforth, as an internationalized soldier he would mind his tongue. After some ruffled...