Word: schuman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier of France Robert Schuman, who had just gone through an Assembly session which might or might not result in the fall of his Cabinet, smiled. "As usual," he said. "It seems they are giving me three weeks to find you a cheap steak...
Deadline in March. Robert Schuman's way of summing up the situation, at the level of the deliberate commonplace, made his government's crisis sound almost trivial. But Frenchmen knew what he meant. And they knew that if Schuman failed in his efforts to halt rising prices, and his coalition government fell, the situation might be beyond the power of any new coalition to solve. That would almost certainly mean an early showdown between the two challenging opposites in France today-Charles de Gaulle's super-party, Rassemblement du Peuple Français, and the Communists...
...Gaullists (though Schuman has been careful not to antagonize them) also blew hard. Cried the Mayor of Paris, Charles de Gaulle's brother, Pierre, last week: the government had "already failed . . . and the succession will be ours...
...Battle of the Fafiots. The general uproar was specifically addressed to Robert Schuman, a man who dislikes noise. Although he was almost a political unknown, he had to command France's respect. He had to take a firm line, although he presided over a coalition Cabinet that included Socialists and assorted centrists, as well as his own strongly Catholic M.R.P. Above all, as a convinced economic liberal, he wanted to end the system of government controls which has been stifling France since the war; but at the same time, he was forced to use repressive measures by current economic...
What many a housewife only vaguely understood was that unless Schuman, by some method, checked soaring prices, his government, and perhaps the Fourth Republic, would fall. Already the Communist-controlled Federation of Labor (which claimed that the cost of living had risen 21.5% since Schuman granted general wage increases last Dec. 1) was demanding a new 20% general wage increase. The demand-which, if granted, would simply push prices still higher-gave Communists a popular rallying cry in a new onslaught against Schuman's government. Schuman last week grimly accepted the challenge: "I am ready for my greatest battle...