Word: ren
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France mourned officially for two full days. Premier René Mayer's government ordered the tricolor lowered on military posts. Next day, Le Figaro (circ. 426,000) protested: "Marshal Stalin is leaving us other souvenirs . . . His name is linked to the struggle of our troops in Indo-China and Korea. [The Soviet Union] helps in prolonging a terrible war . . . Have our authorities thought of the effect which [lowering the flag] will have on the morale of our combat units...
Back in Paris. General Charles de Gaulle huffed & puffed. "With or without the protocols," boomed the general, "the EDC treaty is, in its form and in its spirit, entirely unacceptable." Premier René Mayer had been able to put together his precarious coalition only with De Gaulle's help, the only one of France's last 16 governments to win De Gaulle's grudging support...
...Gaulle's continuing intransigence seemed to jolt René Mayer out of the notion that he could appease everybody. The Premier replied to De Gaulle at week's end with the most spirited defense he has ever made of the European Army ideal. EDC offers France, he warned, the only feasible way of getting both the security of West German military strength and safeguards against a revival of aggressive German militarism. "Who," he asked, "will take the responsibility of leaving France alone in the face of mounting dangers...
With pastepot and pencil. René Mayer tried to patch the twain. He and Foreign Minister Georges Bidault hurried across the Channel to see what the British could offer to placate the German-wary French Socialists. Britain stuck to its decision to stay out of EDC, but was willing to promise its "continued full support" to the European Army. And Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden announced that when he visits Washington next week, he will ask the U.S. to join Britain in a pledge extending NATO's 20-year guarantees (which include the stationing of their troops on the Continent...
...French government, ever a thin reed, bent last week under a gale of resentment blowing out of German-speaking, French-minded Alsace. To cool Alsatians' anger at the verdict in the Oradour massacre trial (TIME, Feb. 23), Premier René Mayer hustled through the Assembly a law decreeing amnesty for all Frenchmen forcibly drafted by the Germans during World War II. It had the immediate effect of granting pardons to 13 Alsatians who, pressed into the Nazis' SS, had participated in the wartime rape of Oradour-sur-Glane...