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...France. The throne council which was supposed to replace him flew to Paris to pledge their allegiance. So did scores of Moroccan chiefs and notables. Sycophant El Glaoui humbly prostrated himself before Mohammed, kissed his monarch's feet and begged forgiveness. Suddenly anxious to please. Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay agreed not only that Mohammed should return to the throne, but that France would help Morocco to "achieve the status of an independent state, united to France by the permanent ties of an interdependence freely accepted and defined." Pinay even agreed that the terms of "interdependence" could be negotiated later...
...depressed. Former Premier Pierre Mendès-France, playing shrewdly on France's century-old fear of German domination, had belabored the proposal in language and innuendo all but identical to that used by the Communist orators. Worse yet. four other former Premiers-Edgar Faure. Joseph Laniel, Antoine Pinay and Paul Reynaud-lent their names to a motion that demanded as the price of French participation that the other five nations must agree to put up capital for France's overseas territo ries, while giving France complete control over the spending of the money...
Unwitting Blunder. The answers were electrifying. Faure, who bears Mollet a deep grudge, had drafted the motion and stood by it. But Laniel confessed that he had never seen the text-"They just read me something over the telephone"-and publicly disavowed it. So did Pinay. Bird-like old Paul Reynaud, 78, determined to make amends for his unwitting blunder, bounced up to the speaker's rostrum to express his wholehearted approval of the Common Market. He was, rasped Reynaud, tired of "anthologies" of reasons for staying out of the Common Market. "These reasons," he said, "resolve into...
Predictably, the most vocal opponents of French participation in the Common Market were the Communists (who dismissed the whole thing as a "Vatican conspiracy") and the right wing led by ex-Premiers Antoine Pinay, Paul Reynaud, Edgar Faure and Joseph Laniel. The bitterest-and most surprising-attack was delivered by ex-Premier Pierre Mendes-France, the man who once talked boldly of "opening the windows" of the French economy. Now Mendes, whose political influence has greatly diminished, argued that opening the windows so high would drive out French capital and bring in unemployed...
...basin's rich economy, the deciding weight in the industrial balance of power between France and Germany. Both in 1919 and 1946, France took over the Röchling empire in an effort to swallow the Saar. Just 20 months ago Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay promised the French Senate, "The Röchlings will never return to the Saar." But six months after he spoke, the German-speaking Saarlanders voted down a French attempt to link their economies permanently...