Word: schuman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Premier Schuman's slim majority in the Assembly had been growing slimmer. Last week in one parliamentary battle he won by only three votes. The balance of power was in the hands of deputies calling themselves the U.D.S.R. (Democratic and Socialist Republican Union), who abstained rather than cause a crisis by voting against...
Friendly Gesture. As Schuman's shaky government floundered, René Pleven, unofficial leader of the U.D.S.R., stepped up with a life preserver-with a long string to it. Pleven's proposition: if Schuman would promise to hold early elections (which the Gaullists would probably win), then the Gaullist R.P.F. would support him as an interim, anti-Communist premier. No longer would Schuman have to squeak by with dwindling majorities...
...chir (we'll think about it)," replied De Gaulle. He then added a sentence to his Compiégne speech (TIME, March 15) which startled French politicians. De Gaulle, who has never had a kind word for the Schuman government, said: ". . . What has to be done is too much for the potentialities of the present regime, however great the value and good will, which are undeniable, of some...
Last week Premier Robert Schuman had the narrowest squeak of his three-months career as France's first minister. Annoyed by criticism of one of his deflation measures, doughty M. Schuman had asked for a vote of confidence. He won-by 23 votes...
Communists and Rightists voted against him. There were 39 abstentions among those who would have voted no but who feared to bring down the government at a time of fierce Communist aggression in Europe (see INTERNATIONAL). Yet M. Schuman was unmoved. While deputies crowded around the voting urns, he retired to an antechamber and drank coffee. When he heard the result, he said: "Majority of 23? It's going down. It will go up if prices go down...