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...France, Premier Rene Mayer served notice that his new government wants alterations which would long delay, and might kill, the European Army...
...Paris pavements were icy that day, and bulky, baggy-eyed Rene Mayer, on his way to the National Assembly to plead support for a new government of France, slipped and staggered. Said he: "In my place, an ancient Roman would take it as an ill omen and go home. But modern courtesy forbids it. I believe they are waiting for me in this House." They were, but there too the ground was slippery...
Three men-a Socialist, a Gaullist and a Popular Republican-had each been asked to form a government, and failed. Now Radical Socialist Mayer (see box), sought a foothold by praising the economic achievements of the late Pinay government. The Pinay majority cheered. Then he turned to the Gaullists. the other group he hoped to win over in order to win office. The treaties binding the six-nation European Defense Community have been duly signed by France, said Mayer, but before ratification, his government would require 1) negotiation of the Saar question, 2) modification of certain clauses in the treaties...
Firmer Assurances. Robert Schuman, who has defended European unification through ten governments, was angry. Mayer had gone too far. The Gaullists thought he had not gone far enough...
...Strange Ones (Jean-Pierre Melville; Mayer-Kingsley). Adaptation of Jean Cocteau's Les Enfants Terrible s, the story of a brother and sister living in a world of their own (TIME, July...