Word: reynaud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Urgently, President Auriol cast about for a new Premier. His first choice: nimble Paul Reynaud, Premier of France during the collapse of 1940. An old hand at coalition building (he has been in & out of six French cabinets), Reynaud is also a top-notch economist...
...Americans wanted to know, for instance, why, after $12 billion of U.S. aid, Western Europe has made almost no "realistic progress" toward federation. France's ex-Premier Paul Reynaud tried to explain. "The main stumbling block is Britain," he said. "She refuses to join . . . the European army and the Schuman plan for pooling coal and steel. For the British there is Parliament, then nothing, then still nothing, then...
...British (unofficially represented by Tory M.P. Robert Boothby) disliked Reynaud's accusations, but could not quite dismiss them. They talked of Britain's interlocking circles: partnership with Commonwealth and Empire, alliance with the U.S., and treaty with Western Europe. Wanting to operate in all three circles, Britain is unwilling to unite with the continental countries; Scandinavia won't unite with them unless Britain does, and the other countries refuse to unite among themselves without ,the British and Scandinavians...
...Robert Schuman (M.R.P.), 65, ex-Foreign Minister, refused. ¶ Rene Mayer (Radical), 56, ex-Minister of Justice, took a week to put a program together, failed to get the required confidence vote from the Assembly. ¶ Georges Bidault (M.R.P.), 51, ex-Premier, gave up after one day. ¶ Paul Reynaud (Independent), 72, Premier at the time of France's defeat in 1940, gave up after one day ("the parties are not yet willing to make the necessary concessions...
...Other familiar French figures to whom the day brought victory: able Foreign Minister Robert Schuman (MRP); Former Premier Georges Bidault (MRP); Minister of National Defense Jules Moch (Socialist). Also elected were two strays from France's darkest days: Munich-going Edouard Daladier (Radical) and Paul Reynaud (Independent), Premier at the time of the fall of France...