Word: reynaud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europeans, in perhaps understandable antagonism, let a crafty old nationalist carry their side into the fight. Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud scoffed at "the Eden miracle," warned of the "rebirth of the Wehrmacht" and sarcastically asked: "Will there be a German general staff which will train men a la prussienne and force in them the soul of a German soldier?" Even old Robert Schuman, who probably sacrificed his political future by his long fight for EDC, assumed a slight tinge of nationalism. "There is the risk," said he of the London plan, "that Germany will one day withdraw from this fragile...
Songs & Blows. With a shout, the Gaullists leaped to their feet. The Communists burst into the Marseillaise. "Back to Moscow," M.R.P. Deputies hooted. A Gaullist and a Socialist almost came to blows. Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud climbed the rostrum, shouted above the uproar: "This is the first time in the history of the French Parliament that a treaty has been rejected without the author [ex-Premier René Pleven] or the signer [Robert Schuman] of the treaty having been heard." Then EDC supporters struck up the Marseillaise. "Why not Deutschland über Alles?" shouted a heckler...
...Assembly, Mendès' foes launched a savage attack designed to bring him down. There was now no alternative to a revived and uncontrolled Wehrmacht, they charged. Cried ex-Premier Reynaud: "You have killed a French idea which restored French prestige . . . You often appeal to young France, but what do you offer her? You hurl her back into the blood of the past...
Means, Not Ends. Pale and defiant, Mendès took the rostrum. Looking at Pinay and Reynaud, he snapped: "I admire your energetic attitudes, although they have not always been in evidence . . . The treaty hung fire for 2½ years. It was signed by the Pinay government, but I don't recall Monsieur Pinay trying to bring it to a vote...
After the Battle. Mendès retired to his country retreat at Marly, relaxing in slacks and sweater. On the littered political field of battle, musketry still rattled and firing squads went about their melancholy tasks. Reynaud, Pinay, Schuman, Bidault, Pleven and Laniel issued a defiant pledge that they would never give up the fight for EDC. The Socialist Party expelled Jules Moch and two other prominent anti-EDC rebels. The M.R.P. expelled three. Three pro-EDC Ministers resigned from the Cabinet, exactly counterbalancing the three anti-EDC Gaullists who had resigned three weeks ago in protest against Mend...