Word: reynaud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Worse Than 1789. Little old Paul Reynaud, onetime Premier of France, recently told the National Assembly that France needs more reforms today to save her than she did in 1789. The reforms are not forthcoming. The only improvements offered so far have been negative: cut the arms budget, reduce pensions. A more popular save-all is also a Communist slogan: "Get out of Indo-China." Strategically, this would be disastrous for the entire Western world. Financially, it would be like knocking the trunk off that 1931 car: the car might run a bit more easily, but its engine capacity would...
Doing Less. Architect of the French plan is shrewd little Vice Premier Paul Reynaud, who visualizes a new French Union with wider, less binding provisions, after the style of the British Commonwealth, one which offers the small, weak states many advantages, but from which they may secede at will. "I don't see how that could happen," he adds, "because they wouldn't last 24 hours." At week's end, Viet Nam had accepted the French proposals, Laos was undecided, but Cambodia's King Norodom was acting as cagily as Syngman Rhee...
...Normans that son Joseph, a much-decorated artillery captain in World War I, should take his father's seat in the Assembly. Young Laniel achieved no particular distinction in politics, though in the dark days of 1940 he was for a time Under Secretary for Finance in Reynaud's ill-fated cabinet. When the Germans arrived, Laniel refused to operate the family linen factory, and his big farm at Bellerive-sur-Allier became an important Resistance headquarters. He was one of the founders with Bidault, of the Committee of National Resistance. On Liberation Day in August...
...majority of the center." Besides, all that the Assembly wanted was a "summer Premier" who would not disturb things much. Laniel obligingly named six former Premiers to his cabinet, keeping Bidault as Foreign Minister and Rene Pleven as Defense Minister, and making his old right-wing friend, Paul Reynaud, a deputy Premier...
...time in the coming 18 months-in the event that an absolute majority of the Assembly should disapprove of his government-France's seat-hugging Deputies were favorably disposed towards Bidault, President Auriol's third Premier-designate in three weeks. After the action-demanding appeals of Reynaud and Mendès-France. Bidault seemed like a tired juggler, but one who would not miss a throw...