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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...
...prewar France. He branched out into magazines, brought out Marie-Claire, and in 1938, on the heels of LIFE's success in the U.S., converted a struggling sports magazine, Match, into a thriving picture weekly. Prouvost went into politics with less success, was Minister of Information in the Reynaud government (1940) and briefly held the same job under Collaborationist Petain. When the Nazis invaded France, they killed his two magazines but turned
Hand of Poker. More than 100 amend ments to the New Deal had already been submitted by special interests. The wine lobby, the distillers, the civil servants, the farmers-all had their champions popping up to defend their privileges. Wartime Premier Paul Reynaud, an old-fashioned financier, was alarmed. The plan, he said, is "as vague as it is irreproachable." "If I understand you correctly," Reynaud said, "your scenario is like this: you open the frontiers, and there is a massive invasion of foreign goods. There is a terrible shock, and you pick up the wounded at the expense...
...Reynaud's biggest worry was that the New Deal might cut military expenses to win economic gains. "For eight years you have been in opposition," he told Mendès-France, "and often you have made it plain that you would save money by reducing military expenditure. Are you betting the peace of the world on the good will of the Kremlin or on the defensive alliance of the Atlantic? I am among those who will not agree to gamble the survival of France on a hand of poker...