Word: laniel
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Dates: during 1953-1953
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...fifth ballot Laniel had actually lost strength, but came back strong on the sixth and seventh. On the eighth, grimly determined to stick it out to the end, he was only 22 votes short of victory. Outside the brightly lighted palace, a policeman jerked his head toward it and grated: "That ends it-you'll never again catch me putting my vote in a ballot box." The newspaper Le Monde complained: "Whoever is elected will be badly elected...
Last summer, when Premier Laniel's government promised sovereignty for the Indo-Chinese states within the French Union, Bao Dai (who was once an emperor and is still referred to as Sa Majeste) began playing an ardently pro-French line. Feeling his position menaced, Tam tried to bolster himself by joining the Vietnamese nationalists, but they would have none of him because of his earlier pro-French record...
This hearts & flowers campaign does not always fall on unlistening ears. While Foreign Minister Bidault and Premier Laniel were in Bermuda, another party of nine Frenchman, led by a Gaullist deputy named Pierre Lebon, was in Warsaw. Among them: ex-Premier Daladier and Jacques Soustelle, a youngish (41) anthropologist who is one of De Gaulle's right-hand men. They had come, at Polish Communist invitation and in a Polish Communist plane, to see for themselves the Oder-Neisse Line, which separates Poland and East Germany. Their visit, of course, called attention to the fact that Germans...
...courtesy, Sir Winston nominated Ike to be chairman. First subject: Soviet Russia's intentions. Eisenhower invited Laniel to speak first. Laniel motioned to Georges Bidault to speak for him, then sat sucking on a balky cigarette. Russia, said Bidault, is stepping up its attempt to divide the allies; Moscow has of late been making particularly gracious gestures toward the French. He believed the new Soviet regime wanted time to consolidate and improve conditions inside Russia. Sir Winston sat slumped in his chair, head down, glasses at nose's end, seeming to nod only to straighten up when prodded...
...slight numerical majority for EDC in the French National Assembly. The difficulty is that a majority that could be put together to pass EDC is not a majority that could govern the country. There are two majorities in the chamber: one for internal policy, one for foreign policy. The Laniel government is a precarious internal majority, essentially a right-of-center group. The Socialists will not join it. On a vote for EDC, the Socialists would support Laniel, but the Gaullists would desert him. Without the Gaullists, the government cannot enact its internal policy. Without the Socialists, it cannot enact...