Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trickling into the muddy current of French opinion, were one of a number of streams which together seemed last week to be washing at the foundation of European unity against Communist aggression. Foremost were Speaker Edouard Herriot's declared opposition to the European Defense Community and Premier Antoine Pinay's tacit approval of Herriot's position (he knew what Herriot was going to say and did nothing to change it). After all, the whole idea of EDC was a cumbersome attempt to quiet French fears of German rearmament; now it looked as if France might be trying...
...moment to close the floodgates, and Foreign Minister Robert Schuman did just that. Schuman's party, the M.R.P., threatened to withdraw from the government unless immediate consideration was given to ratifying EDC. Premier Pinay, who needs Herriot's party in his coalition but also cannot carry on without the M.R.P.'s 100 votes, promised that ratification of EDC would be debated in the Assembly in November...
...turning point in French foreign policy. But support for ratification came from such veteran statesmen as René Pleven and Paul Reynaud, who argued that the plan to bring West German troops into a European army is specifically designed to prevent the rebirth of the Wehrmacht. Premier Antoine Pinay, who needs the support of the Radical Socialists (75 seats) to stay in power, was quoted as saying: "I am for a European army...
...opposed to German participation in the general staff. Let them give us soldiers, nothing more." The French Foreign Ministry hurriedly denied that he had said such a tactless thing. In view of Herriot's opposition and Pinay's lukewarm support, ratification by the French Parliament is still possible, but chancier than ever...
...scorers of the day: Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands (132 birds), the Duke of Edinburgh (103), President Auriol (61). Following the morning's activity, lunch was served to the guests, including Queen Juliana, U.S. Ambassador James Dunn, SHAPE'S Matthew B. Ridgway, France's Premier Antoine Pinay. In the early afternoon gamekeepers returned to the morning's shooting grounds with bags of grain for the pheasants that had survived...