Word: laniel
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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Last week Premier Joseph Laniel issued a set of decrees designed to put the industry back on its feet. To keep only the best grades of wine on the market, growers will be compelled to turn over 12% of their harvest to the government, at a low price, for distillation into industrial alcohol. If there is still overproduction by 1958, the government will force the winemakers to uproot a percentage of their vines each year until output matches sales. As one expert summed it up: "The French wine industry is now at the crossroads, and the question is quality...
Theoretically, the help of some 80 of the Socialists would give Premier Laniel a majority in the National Assembly for ratification of EDC. But perversely, the debate would bring down his Cabinet, which contains no Socialists but does have several Gaullist ministers, all strongly opposed to EDC. The dilemma: without the Socialists, who oppose his domestic policies, Laniel cannot get ratification of EDC; without the Gaullists, who oppose EDC, he cannot govern France...
Like so many French Premiers before, Laniel's solution was to play for more time. "My government will ask parliament to put EDC on its agenda," he announced last week. But first, Foreign Minister Bidault and Chancellor Adenauer "must examine in common the problems concerning France and Germany . . ." Specifically, that meant the knotty Saar question. How long would that take? Laniel did not know-but it was pertinent that both he and Bidault are candidates to succeed President Vincent Auriol, whose term ends this year. Neither man is anxious to stake his candidacy on EDC, and the betting...
...right after it. "Certain unofficial declarations," said he, "might have led to the thought that the two powers which . . . inspire and arm the Viet Minh [Communist] rebels were disposed to consider the opening of negotiations to put an end to the war." From France, Schumann's boss,Premier Laniel, uttered similar sentiments. "A strong people is not dishonored by negotiating," said the Premier...
From Paris, Premier Joseph Laniel fired off an offer to complete negotiations for the full independence of Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia-"within the French Union," the French hoped, but even outside it if the Indo-Chinese insist. Paris gave Navarre nine more battalions of French soldiers (eleven less than he asked for, but a lot when measured against France's supply). Washington, kept in touch with the detailed development of the plan by Ambassador Donald Heath, joined in further planning. Its decision: an addition of $385 million to the $400 million in aid that was already scheduled...