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...quick-truce faction, told everybody who would listen: "We must get peace!" For two days Bidault had to mark time while the Assembly debated a vote of confidence. "A Foreign Minister does not negotiate while his policy is being debated behind his back," he snapped to Premier Laniel on the phone...
...Dismal Rain. From speaker.after speaker, the words "immediate ceasefire" drummed on the government like a dismal rain. Premier Joseph Laniel tried to head off the downpour until after Geneva, arguing in effect that the government could better come to terms at Geneva if let alone. The critics persisted. Laniel and his Cabinet made the issue-whether to debate Indo-China now or later-an issue of confidence. Laniel won his vote of confidence 311 to 262, but it .was only a stay until another showdown soon-and probably the last confidence vote the Laniel government would...
...holiday, police lined the Champs Elysées to protect the government ministers who came to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at the Arch of Triumph. President René Coty-whose badge of office usually excites big applause -got only a scattering of handclaps. Premier Laniel's car rolled past and some shouted and hissed. "Send him to Dienbienphu," cried some. "Shoot him!" others shouted. Defense Minister René Pleven drew the same derision. "Resign! Resign!" some in the crowd chanted. Whether these shouts represented isolated outbursts or the common mood was hard to tell...
...itself would go ahead; he could only say that, if the British agreed on "united action," he would be able to ask Congress. The British agreed only to "examine the possibility." The French took somewhat the same attitude, though they still talked of an air strike. As Laniel explained last week: "All solutions which might help a local situation, that of Dienbienphu, were studied, [but] we refused before the Geneva Conference to accept solutions which might risk a generalized conflict...
Born. To Paul Reynaud, 75, Premier of France at the time of the Nazi invasion in 1940, now one of three Vice Premiers under Premier Joseph Laniel, and his second wife. Christiane Mabire Reynaud, 40, his onetime secretary: their third child (his fourth, a son; in Paris. Name: Alexandre. Weight...