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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place, the French proposed pipe-smoking René Mayer, 60, who was Premier of France for four months in 1953. An able banker-businessman who has a family connection with the wealthy Rothschilds, Mayer served with De Gaulle in North Africa during World War II. Later, as chief spokesman for the hard-shelled North African colons, it was he who delivered the crucial, brutal Assembly speech which brought down his fellow Radical Socialist and arch-political foe, Premier Pierre Mendès-France (TIME, Feb. 14). He is a sufficiently good European to satisfy the Catholic M.R.P. members of Faure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: New Mr. M. | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...Slow. With Mayer safely elected, the council heard a plea by The Netherlands' Foreign Minister Johan Beyen for a dramatic Monnet-style increase in the Community's powers. Backed by the Benelux nations, the Dutchman proposed 1) a common market for all European products, 2) the integration of European highways and railroads, 3) a European pool for the development of atomic power. But the French wanted to go slow, and the Germans, who used to be ardently supranational when they had no sovereignty to lose, no longer seemed keen to surrender any of their national independence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: New Mr. M. | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...Rome, a civil court ruled that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had sometimes made Italy's great Tenor Enrico Caruso appear far less than great in the movie The Great Caruso. Awarded to Caruso's heirs, for MGM's reflections upon the family's honor: $8,300 damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 6, 1955 | 6/6/1955 | See Source »

Point of Departure. Faure was well aware that his field of choice was narrow. Fail to satisfy the colons' demands, and he might bring his own downfall at the hands of the 50 Deputies, headed by ex-Premier René Mayer, who represent the rich pro-colon lobby in the Assembly. Fail to satisfy the demands of the Arab moderates, and France might eventually lose all North Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Narrow Choice | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...comeback. They include such other ex-Premiers as slothlike Henri Queuille, the father of immobilisme; Edouard Daladier, the appeaser of Munich; 82-year-old Edouard Herriot, who fought German rearmament tooth and claw. And they include two diehard conservatives, Léon Martinaud-Déplat and René Mayer, who engineered Mendès' downfall. The Radical Socialists come close to being the fulcrum of French politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Road to a Comeback | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

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