Word: laniel
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...European Army, a four-power conference, a decisive political conference in Korea, peace in Indo-China, the future of the European defense machine all stand as specters before President Eisenhower as he joins Prime Minister Winston churchill and Premier Joseph Laniel in Bermuda this morning...
France is a case of concern for both sides. Laniel hesitates over EDC ratification, fearing that if France gives its approval to a strong German army, U.S. and British troops will leave Europe to a militant Germany. And it is doubtful that Eisenhowere can promise that Congress would allow our troops to remain...
...Requires Depth. In the wings, ailing Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, who suffers from liver trouble, stayed up all one night to prepare his own climactic speech for the occasion. He hoped France's deputies would at least approve the European Army en principe so that he and Premier Laniel would have something to take with them to the Big Three meeting at Bermuda on Dec. 4. Preparing for the speech, Bidault fortified himself with energy pills...
What seemed to disturb Molotov most was the Western powers' decision to sit down among themselves next fortnight in Bermuda, when Churchill, Eisenhower and France's Joseph Laniel will get together for the first time since Ike became President. "Conferences of this kind . . . tend to put certain states in opposition to other states . . ." Molotov complained...
...matter of fact, if Churchill has his way, Bermuda will be a forerunner of talks with Malenkov. Churchill has been longing for a Big Three chat ever since he was denied Big Four talks. Now the Big Three at least would meet, but under a particularly nullifying circumstance. Laniel will be able to speak only for a lame-duck government which must automatically dissolve when France elects a new President -within ten days to a month after the Bermuda meeting...