Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These small and medium-sized enterprises have strong influence in the National Assembly. They have formed the political basis of all the French governments of the last years, particularly those of Pinay and Laniel. Today these men of the old regime are trying very hard to bring the new government down. They tried to do so in the confused EDC debate. Their big offensive failed. They have now opted for a classic gambit in the history of nations: they appealed to foreign powers. These "friends of America" messaged Washington and even Bonn that the new government had dangerous schemes...
Said ex-Premier Antoine Pinay: "In comparing the conferences of Geneva and Brussels, Mr. Premier, you have implied it was easier to get along with the Communist countries than with our friends and allies. If Chou En-lai seemed a more ami able negotiator than Monsieur Spaak, that is no doubt because you did more to reach understanding with the former than with the latter...
...Pinay got tougher: "You exactly predicted our majority yesterday . . . But you omitted yourself-the influence you could have had in the vote if you had worked for ratification . . . The Soviet Machiavelli desires a government which would ruin the [Atlantic] alliance in pretending to defend it. Such a government, I hasten to add, is not yours. But if it existed, it would do what you are doing...
Means, Not Ends. Pale and defiant, Mendès took the rostrum. Looking at Pinay and Reynaud, he snapped: "I admire your energetic attitudes, although they have not always been in evidence . . . The treaty hung fire for 2½ years. It was signed by the Pinay government, but I don't recall Monsieur Pinay trying to bring it to a vote...
After the Battle. Mendès retired to his country retreat at Marly, relaxing in slacks and sweater. On the littered political field of battle, musketry still rattled and firing squads went about their melancholy tasks. Reynaud, Pinay, Schuman, Bidault, Pleven and Laniel issued a defiant pledge that they would never give up the fight for EDC. The Socialist Party expelled Jules Moch and two other prominent anti-EDC rebels. The M.R.P. expelled three. Three pro-EDC Ministers resigned from the Cabinet, exactly counterbalancing the three anti-EDC Gaullists who had resigned three weeks ago in protest against Mend...