Word: pineau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most impressive advocate is the "Committee for the Study of the Republic," a body formed a year ago by Christian Pineau, now Foreign Minister. The committee included outstanding jurists, government officials and many political leaders, among them Pierre Mendes-France. It found that neither changes in the electoral system nor reforms of the present system could convert France to a two-party system like Britain's or the U.S.'s. But a constitution providing the country with a strong executive elected for a four-year term was possible, and, in fact, the committee said, "the most adaptable...
France's unpredictable Foreign Minister Christian Pineau startled his colleagues by producing an elaborate, though vague, plan for "a world economic development agency" under U.N. Designed to include the Russians and to prevent an economic cold war, it envisioned a central bank to make long-term loans and a worldwide system of price supports for raw materials produced by underdeveloped countries. Pineau and Premier Guy Mollet are scheduled to visit Moscow late this month. Most of Pineau's colleagues suspected his plan was chiefly intended to make a good impression in advance...
...from Reykjavik to London to New Delhi are potshotting at the U.S., there was very little freshness in Mollet's words; the newness was that they should come from the mouth of a French Premier. Only three weeks before, Mollet's Foreign Minister and Fellow Socialist Christian Pineau had made a calculatingly indiscreet speech suggesting that there was no longer a common purpose in Western foreign policy (TIME, March 12). Behind such taunts and twists were a whole hatful of political factors, not the least Mollet's own political predicament...
...compelled by events to call up troops to wage war in Algeria. Pledged to enact the welfare state, he must refrain from Socialist economics because the Algerian campaign eats up all his revenues. With only the field of foreign affairs left in which to strike popular attitudes, Mollet and Pineau have accordingly thrown themselves with ideological ardor into pooh-poohing the Soviet military menace, urging disarmament, and gigging...
...need for France to give such a reassurance stems partly from the kind of remark made recently by Socialist Pineau: "We want to remain a link between the blocs, but without renouncing our friendships." To become a link between East and West, said Mollet, correcting his Foreign Minister, France would have to "cease to belong to the West...