Word: schuman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Assembly passed Premier Schuman's strike-control bill (TIME, Dec. 8). At week's end nearly 1,000 had been arrested on sabotage charges. Minister of Interior Jules Moch, a tall, dark, Communist-hating Socialist, told the Assembly that he had authorized police and troops to fire on rioters if necessary. Moch also said that newly mobilized reservists would be ready by Wednesday of this week, and that, thereafter, "in every mine and in every factory where men want to work . . . they will be free...
...C.G.T.'s Benoît Frachon tried a last-ditch expedient. He called on one-eyed President Vincent Auriol at Elysée Palace and asked him to send Schuman's strike bill back to the Assembly for a second reading. The President of the Republic has that right, but Auriol refused. Next day Frachon telephoned Maurice Thorez, secretary of the French Communist Party, just back from Moscow. Said Frachon to Thorez: "I cannot hold much longer. I warn you, the situation is getting out of control...
Mayer argued for a few minutes longer. M. Schuman said firmly: "If you will excuse me, I have not shaved for two days. I would like to shave...
...Assembly passed the first part of Schuman's bill (calling up 80,000 troops) by a vote of 408 to 184, which meant solid non-Communist support. Meanwhile the back-to-work movement was gaining strength. The number of strikers dropped from...
Against the Wall. The vigor of M. Schuman's counterattack surprised many who had thought that Charles de Gaulle was the only strong man in France, and who were therefore expecting De Gaulle's quick ascent to power. If the Socialists stood firm behind Schuman, De Gaulle might not be needed for quite a while...