Word: mending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though his opponents are busy discussing among themselves who will be France's next Premier,* Pierre Mendès-France last week blithely shook up his Cabinet for the fifth time and announced crisply: "Now the real work begins." By this he meant applying himself to his favorite subject, economics, and his declared intention to unravel France's knotted economy...
...Assembly's close vote on German rearmament. In private, Mendès keeps referring sadly to the narrowness of the plurality (27 votes). He deliberately let EDC die on the assumption that he could get a husky plurality for straight German rearmament. He now realizes that his gamble has hurt French prestige abroad...
...breakdown of French negotiations with the Tunisian nationalists. This is the deepest of all Mendès' disappointments, because he had looked on Tunisia as a beginning, whereas all the other hard decisions taken were endings...
While he was away last week, the National Assembly convened to elect a new President. On the third ballot. Deputies voted 232 to 188 to turn out Incumbent Socialist André Le Troquer. whose party has been most consistently behind Mendès' policies in spite of its refusal to join his Cabinet. In Le Troquers place the Deputies elected Pierre Schneiter of the Roman Catholic M.R.P. Though Schneiter, a Resistance hero and mayor of Reims, is personally not hostile to Mendès in the fashion of Mendès-hating M.R.P.er Georges Bidault and his followers...
...vote showed, at any rate, that a majority exists to bring down Mendès the minute a convenient issue arises. Some of Mendès' young supporters would just as soon see him fall shortly, so that out of office he can begin a new grouping of the left, which would return him to power with a stronger mandate. Mendès himself is not in such a hurry to quit office. "As long as I continue to do useful work," he says, "I'll not give...