Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strong sense of realism, of decisions made, of the inevitable accepted. Six members of Faure's Cabinet had voted against the accords in the Assembly and six had abstained. Now the Premier rose to declare that his entire Cabinet was united in support. Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay. who had abstained in the Assembly, set the theme of realism. The choice, he said, was not between an armed and an unarmed Germany; it was between a free France and a France dominated by the Soviet Union. Said he: "We must reinforce the West. We must strengthen its cohesion. Before coexisting...
With such help as this, Pinay was able to get the Senate to begin debate on March 22. The fixing of an early date is a favorable augury for ratification...
...carry his fight in the Senate, Faure relied on his Foreign Minister, Antoine Pinay, the small-businessman's Premier for ten months in 1952. Pinay is no specialist in foreign affairs, but he boned up fast, and made an able 2½-hour speech...
...France does not approve the accords, said Pinay, it will be dangerously isolated. To prove his point he produced a letter from Sir Winston Churchill, saying that if France left her place vacant at international councils, "sooner or later another nation [meaning West Germany] would take her chair." Pinay's case was further bolstered by a message from President Eisenhower, giving assurance that U.S. forces would stay in Europe "while a threat to that area exists." This important U.S. guarantee had been given during the EDC struggle, but it had lapsed with the death...
...masterpiece. Gone were the bright young men of Mendès' Cabinet. Replacing them were many of the old familiar faces of postwar France, carefully balanced off as Faure doled out the spoils to the bargainers. To soothe the conservatives, the foreign ministry went to Independent Antoine Pinay, a sturdy pro-European pledged to push through the Paris accords. But as his own ministerial lieutenant Faure appointed Gaullist Gaston Palewski, a leader of the opposition to the accords who has organized the effort to block implementation even after ratification. As a price for their hesitant support, the M.R.P...