Word: schuman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chips Are Down. Such Frenchmen feared that, in the end, it came down to trusting in the still remote and uncertain U.S. power, and events like Congressman John Taber's hatchet work on ERP (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) did nothing to increase that trust. Premier Schuman's government might be gambling its existence (see FOREIGN NEWS) when the French Assembly debates the six-power recommendations soon...
Premier Robert Schuman, who had started and stopped the tempest in the model harbor at the French government's new hydraulic laboratory at Maisons-Alfort last week, was pleased. "What control! It's uncanny," he remarked...
High Winds. A toy storm was pleasant, for a change. All week Robert Schuman had been grappling with man-sized tempests. He badly needed a magic button to press-but nowhere in the jittery, confused National Assembly was there the solid majority which could provide...
...first gale blew up when Socialists suddenly bucked at the idea of firing 150,000 surplus government workers-though Socialists in the Schuman cabinet were committed to the economy. The Premier demanded a vote of confidence and got it, 402-183 (his ninth in nearly seven months). Only the Communists voted against him. The size of his majority seemed almost a promise of sunny weather...
...Schuman could see an even blacker cloud on the immediate horizon. The six-power London agreement to set up a provisional Western German government would soon have to be laid before the Assembly for ratification. The Communists, of course, were against it. Maurice Thorez had already called it "a national disaster." And General Charles de Gaulle promised a public statement on the subject before the debate began. That De Gaulle would be critical, there was no doubt. If he were violently critical, Radical and rightist deputies would not vote the ratification...