Word: reynaud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...familiar faces crossed the scene. Crowds heard again from Edouard Daladier, France's agent at Munich, and Paul Reynaud, Premier when France fell. Aged (83) but intrepid Edouard Herriot got from meeting to meeting in his wheelchair. Bodyguards propped ailing Communist Chief Maurice Thorez before microphones to breathe a few words on behalf of Red candidates...
...spent four rigorous years in French and German prisons. His wartime imprisonment and his excellent record as a member of the French Assembly since 1946 have brought about a reappraisal of his fatal premiership. Says De Gaulle in his recent memoirs: "In such conditions, the intelligence of Paul Reynaud, his courage, the authority of his office, were deployed, so to speak, in a vacuum...
Twenty Crises. Last week Reynaud's intelligence and courage and authority were in action at the office he occupies as chairman of the powerful Assembly Finance Committee. Sitting stiffly upright at his desk, with scarcely a crease in his double-breasted waistcoat, he wrote out in longhand a set of proposals for reforming the French constitution to enable ministers to stay in office long enough to conduct responsible government. Although he himself had voted against the Mendès-France government, and thus helped bring on its collapse, he told a press conference that this 20th ministerial crisis...
...figure that France cuts in the world, because of ministerial instability, wounds and irritates Frenchmen. The Assembly can overthrow as many governments as it pleases without any other motive than the opportunity of its members to satisfy ambitions overstimulated by the very frequency of the crises." Added Reynaud with a bitter irony: "It's becoming a disgrace not to have been a minister just like everyone else...
...Reynaud's plan for reducing the recurrent crises: 1) make the constitution easier to amend, 2) then pass an amendment which makes dissolution of Parliament and new elections automatic when a government is defeated on a censure motion, or a vote of confidence, within two years after taking office...