Word: reynaud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cried rightist General Adolphe Aumeran. "Without our agreement Amer ica will not dare rearm Germany." Insisted Gaullist Jacques Soustelle: "Every effort to get a modus vivendi with the East must be sought first. Logic dictates it . . . an alliance with Russia is a geopolitical must for France." Complained old Paul Reynaud, the man who was Premier in 1940 when France fell: "The Paris accords give the political hegemony to England and the military hegemony to Germany." Doddering old Edouard Herriot summarized for the fearful. "I refuse to accord [the Germans] either my sympathy or friendship," Herriot complained in his best emotional...
Former Premier Antoine Pinay declared that he, too, would abstain. So did Reynaud. Suddenly, the move to take refuge on the sidelines of abstention gained momentum. "Elections are only 18 months off," explained one observer. "If, by then, rearming Germany still worries Frenchmen, the abstainers can say, 'Don't blame us; we didn't vote for it.' If the Germans behave, the abstainers can contend, 'After all, we didn't stand in the way of the treaties.' " Socialists, pledged to vote for rearmament, began to panic...
Emerging from the meeting, Bidault encountered Reynaud. "Is the night going to be long?" asked Reynaud. "It may be long, but in any case it is ours," said Bidault with a sly-fox grin...
...PAUL REYNAUD, former French Premier and EDC backer, who opposes the London agreements, in La Revue des Deux Mondes...
...after day, French officials and party leaders trooped to the gloomy Reuilly barracks to testify in the espionage investigation that began last month with the arrest of a Red-hunting cop named Jean Dides. The witnesses ranged from ex-Premiers Paul Reynaud and Georges Bidault to dumpy ex-Pastry Cook Jacques Duclos, France's No. 2 Communist, who long has been running the party in the absence of ailing Maurice Thorez. In prison, nimble, wire-haired André Baranés (TIME, Oct. 11) methodically set to work fuzzing up his story of how he delivered records of France...