Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often before, the seat of trouble lay in France's National Assembly, where Premier René Mayer faced two reservations to the European Defense Community plan. French Socialists, whose support Mayer must have, fear to stand at the side of Germany in the European Army unless Britain stands at the other, i.e., by also becoming a member of EDC; French nationalists, whose support of the Mayer government is equally vital, accept the military wisdom of German rearmament, but reject any arrangement that will tie the bulk of the French army to the troops of other nations...
With pastepot and pencil. René Mayer tried to patch the twain. He and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault hurried across the Channel to see what the British could offer to placate the German-wary French Socialists. Britain stuck to its decision to stay out of EDC, but was willing to promise its "continued full support" to the European Army. And Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced that when he visits Washington next week, he will ask the U.S. to join Britain in a pledge extending NATO's 20-year guarantees (which include the stationing of their troops on the Continent...
Minor Alterations. To woo the nationalists, who insist that France must keep full control over its army, Mayer presented the five other EDC partners (West Germany, Italy and Benelux) with nine last-minute protocols, each one subtly designed to change the sense and substance of EDC in France's favor. If accepted, the most important changes would...
...nationalists in the Assembly, Mayer stoutly maintained that his nine protocols change the treaty in important respects, but they guarantee the "unity and integrity of the French army." To other EDC members, he described them as "minor alterations...
...French government, ever a thin reed, bent last week under a gale of resentment blowing out of German-speaking, French-minded Alsace. To cool Alsatians' anger at the verdict in the Oradour massacre trial (TIME, Feb. 23), Premier René Mayer hustled through the Assembly a law decreeing amnesty for all Frenchmen forcibly drafted by the Germans during World War II. It had the immediate effect of granting pardons to 13 Alsatians who, pressed into the Nazis' SS, had participated in the wartime rape of Oradour-sur-Glane...