Word: reynaud
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...government into power. Last week, casually reviewing candidates to end France's 19th political crisis in 7½years, the lords of the Assembly were momentarily shocked out of their lethargy by a man who was only the third invited to form a cabinet: belligerent, button-eyed Paul Reynaud, 74, last Premier of France in the days before World War II swallowed up the Third Republic. Before the Assembly, Reynaud ran down the ills which, he said, had made France "the sick man of Europe...
Some Paris newspapers called his speech a turning point in French foreign policy. But support for ratification came from such veteran statesmen as René Pleven and Paul Reynaud, who argued that the plan to bring West German troops into a European army is specifically designed to prevent the rebirth of the Wehrmacht. Premier Antoine Pinay, who needs the support of the Radical Socialists (75 seats) to stay in power, was quoted as saying: "I am for a European army...
...National Union." Hurrying back to Paris last week from Britain, where he had spoken before the Oxford Union (see EDUCATION), 73-year-old Paul Reynaud boldly turned his back on the formula of weak minority coalitions set by his predecessors. Instead, he appealed to all French parties, except the Communists, to join a "Government of National Union." It was a timely appeal for French patriotism, but as a political maneuver it failed. Socialists refused point-blank to sit in the same cabinet with Gaullists. Sadly, Paul Reynaud gave up trying. René Pleven, called upon next, refused even...
...distress our friends," said 73-year-old Paul Reynaud last week, "and are the laughing stock of our enemies...
...debate arrived. The question this time: "That this house would welcome the rearmament of Western Germany within the framework of a Western European Federation." Shuman was on the negative, along with Socialist Lord Stansgate and a young Bevanite named Patrick Uber. On the affirmative: Guest Speaker Paul Reynaud of France (see FOREIGN NEWS), and Shuman's presidential opponents Norman St. John-Stevas, former president of the Cambridge Union, and Oleg Kerensky, grandson of Russia's last pre-Bolshevik Prime Minister...