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...Paris in 1940, Correspondent Reynolds handed a French government official a cable, which said: "Dear Uncle Franklin: I am having difficulty getting accredited to the French army. Time is important. Would you phone or cable Premier Reynaud and ask him to hurry things up. It was grand of you to phone me last night. Please give my love to Aunt Eleanor. Quent." As Reynolds had hoped, the French official promptly accredited him. But to Reynolds' embarrassment the official also volunteered to dispatch the cable to President Roosevelt, whom Reynolds had never even met. Explained Reynolds in a Manhattan court...
Born. To Paul Reynaud, 75, Premier of France at the time of the Nazi invasion in 1940, now one of three Vice Premiers under Premier Joseph Laniel, and his second wife. Christiane Mabire Reynaud, 40, his onetime secretary: their third child (his fourth, a son; in Paris. Name: Alexandre. Weight...
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...
...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...