Word: premiered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France's National Economic Council (an advisory body that usually echoes the nation's mood) had told the Premier simply: "You have until March 15, at the very latest, to lower prices 10%." Beyond that date, no labor union could promise to hold down the workers' dissatisfaction. In fact, the Communist-led C.G.T. (biggest federation of French unions) was unwilling to wait that long. The Communists last week demanded immediate wage boosts which they knew the government could not grant...
Schuman thereupon had to reimpose many controls. Now, could he reverse the trend? Said 28-year-old Pierre Guiton, a history teacher, last week: "I hope he succeeds . . . but I have no confidence." Few Frenchmen, indeed, knew enough about their Premier to judge his mettle...
...studied law, built up a successful practice in Metz. When Lorraine was returned to France in 1919, he was elected deputy from his district, and has been reelected ever since. The first to "discover" him was wartime Premier Paul Reynaud, who made him Undersecretary for Refugees in 1940. At one point during the war, Schuman was kept in solitary confinement by the Germans. "It did not leave me bad memories," he says. "I meditated...
...Lyon church, he told the Bishop of Metz and 1,500 fellow Lorrainers: "Hitler is lost! You may be sure of that." After that, the Nazis put a price on his head. Friends who knew him before the war now find him subtly changed. Schuman, the Premier, has more warmth than Schuman, the lawyer...
...their advantage, the Front pointed to other promises. Moscow favored Italian trusteeship under the U.N. for Italy's prewar African colonies; if the Front won power in the April elections, a way might be found to bring Trieste back under Italian control.* What, asked the Front, could Premier de Gasperi offer? The Front's answer: only more U.S. meddling in Italian affairs; the threat of involvement...