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...Robert Schuman (M.R.P.), 65, ex-Foreign Minister, refused. ¶ Rene Mayer (Radical), 56, ex-Minister of Justice, took a week to put a program together, failed to get the required confidence vote from the Assembly. ¶ Georges Bidault (M.R.P.), 51, ex-Premier, gave up after one day. ¶ Paul Reynaud (Independent), 72, Premier at the time of France's defeat in 1940, gave up after one day ("the parties are not yet willing to make the necessary concessions...
...Other familiar French figures to whom the day brought victory: able Foreign Minister Robert Schuman (MRP); Former Premier Georges Bidault (MRP); Minister of National Defense Jules Moch (Socialist). Also elected were two strays from France's darkest days: Munich-going Edouard Daladier (Radical) and Paul Reynaud (Independent), Premier at the time of the fall of France...
...Memphis, Mme. Paul Reynaud, wife of the onetime French Premier (now lecturing in the U.S.), praised the glamour and good looks of American kitchen gadgets. The equipment is so beautiful she said, "I'd probably cook in the living room...
...coal & steel industries was similarly threatened. When the Consultative Assembly voted a set of resolutions designed to give the proposed control authority more power, the British Labor group abstained. The quarrel between the British and French on the Schuman proposal flared up again when France's Paul Reynaud, shaking his finger at British Socialist Delegate Hugh Dalton, said: "We are told: 'Go ahead, you French, and build the House of Europe. If it is comfortable we will move into the room you have reserved for us. If it collapses we will attend your funeral . . .' Certain members...
...strong team. He kept his Interior Ministry post and put M. Bidault in as Vice Premier. Able Robert Schuman stayed-on as Foreign Minister, to work on his pool plan for West European coal and steel. The new cabinet included an important new post, which was filled by Paul Reynaud: Minister of State for the Associated States of the French Union and for the Far East. Maurice Petsche was again appointed Finance Minister and Renee Mayer stayed on as the Minister of Justice...