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Nonsense About Neutrality. There were two items on the agenda: 1) the Paris accords proper, restoring German sovereignty and inviting rearmament in NATO, and 2) the much-abused Saar agreement, signed by Adenauer and Mendès-France (TIME, Nov. 1). The Paris accords came first, and at once the Socialists weighed in with the made-in-Moscow argument that they have chosen to regard as their own: ratification of rearmament means the end of all hope of German reunification. Ex-Communist Herbert Wehner, 48, mastermind of the Socialist left wing (TIME, Feb. 28), talked up a Geneva-style conference...
...Pierre Mendès-France talked the language of action, used such expressions as "original," "daring," "the need for a psychological shock." "You must choose," was his challenge to the Assembly. His fellow Radical Socialist Edgar Faure talks the language of moderation and gradualism, speaks of "carom shots," and "economic billiards." "If you can't get over an obstacle, go around it," he likes to say. Last week the French Assembly chose to go around with Faure...
...three weeks, as French movie audiences cheered pictures of Mendès and booed the procession of Old Guard leaders to the presidential palace, France's ship of state had been in irons-sails thrashing, the crew in shouting confusion. Night after night, old President René Coty had climbed from his bed to confer with pouchy-eyed politicians, while ample Madame Coty padded about the palace kitchen in her silken peignoir, serving endless cups of coffee...
...weeks after the fall of Pierre Mendès-France, France was still without a government. President Coty had gone to the right and gone to the left; three men (Antoine Pinay, Pierre Pflimlin and Christian Pineau) had failed to satisfy the Assembly; this week a fourth, Edgar Faure (Mendès-France's Finance Minister), was trying, and once again the air was filled with the bickering, squabbling and jockeying that characterizes the National Assembly of the Fourth Republic...
...votes. Biggest is the alcohol lobby, which keeps French winegrowers, beet farmers and distillers producing twice the alcohol the French can drink and forces the government to buy the surplus at four times the world price. The North African lobby, run by Senator Henri Borgeaud, took alarm when Mendès tried to reduce the colons' control of the local police. As a result, Algeria's Rene Mayer and 19 other Radical Socialists deserted their own Premier and brought his downfall...