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...23rd time since World War II, French politicians sweated through the ceremonial dance of trying to form a government. President René Coty first offered the premiership to René Pleven, then to Antoine Pinay. Both refused. Pleven had been Defense Minister during Dienbienphu, feared ugly comparisons with the Algerian war. Parliamentary arithmetic ruled out any candidate without Socialist support, something Right-Winger Pinay could not get. Finally, the President summoned tall, white-haired Pierre Pflimlin, 50, to his oak-paneled office at the Elysee Palace for a two-hour talk, then walked him to the threshold and said...
...Moscow," M.R.P. Deputies hooted. A Gaullist and a Socialist almost came to blows. Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud climbed the rostrum, shouted above the uproar: "This is the first time in the history of the French Parliament that a treaty has been rejected without the author [ex-Premier René Pleven] or the signer [Robert Schuman] of the treaty having been heard." Then EDC supporters struck up the Marseillaise. "Why not Deutschland über Alles?" shouted a heckler...
...Catholic M.R.P.s of Bidault and Schuman voted 86 to 2 for it. But 53 out of 105 Socialists bolted party discipline to vote against* 34 out of 76 Radicals (Mendès-France's own party) voted against EDC; so did ten out of 24 Deputies of Pleven's U.D.S.R...
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...
...became De Gaulle's Minister of National Economy, and worked out an austerity plan for the economic reconstruction of postwar France, including such severe anti-inflation measures as freezing all large bank deposits. But at a Cabinet meeting in January 1945, a majority led by Finance Minister Rene Pleven vigorously objected. After five years of occupation, the French people would not stand for a new period of austerity, they argued. "You see, my dear Mendès," said De Gaulle, "the Minister of Finance and all the experts are against you." "I remember," answered Mendès sadly, "when...