Word: schuman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Motives. French labor unionists, rallying behind a surprisingly forceful new Premier, Robert Schuman (see FOREIGN NEWS),hamstrung a Communist maneuver to paralyze France with strikes. After a week of tension in which the fate of the Fourth Republic hung in the balance, French workers were pouring back to their jobs, disregarding the pleas of Communist leaders...
Premier Robert Schuman, ordinarily a meek and mouselike man, last week pounced on the Communists like a raging lion. The tide of battle between Schuman's government and the Reds, who were trying to paralyze the nation, turned suddenly in Schuman's favor. It was the legislative measures he proposed against them that really staggered the "Cocos"; but the newly leonine M. Schuman showed himself not averse to a little personal action as well. When Communist Jacques Duclos called him a dirty name in the Assembly, Schuman started right down the aisle. Ushers held him back...
...Premier Schuman declared it a "state of insurrection." According to secret Communist campaign plans which fell into the hands of the Ministry of the Interior, and which the police believed were genuine, the Reds planned to: 1) isolate Paris by rail and postal strikes; 2) cut off the south of France and there create a liaison zone with Italian Communists; 3) paralyze coal production in the north; 4) "create disturbances in key towns, notably Marseille, Lyon, St-Etienne, Limoges, Poitiers, Bordeaux, Toulouse...
...inflation. The non-Communists among them were willing to give the new government a breathing spell before tackling the wage-price situation. The Communist leaders, however, wanted to use unrest over living costs to spike the Marshall Plan and put pressure on the London conference of Foreign Ministers. When Schuman offered a cost-of-living bonus if they would call off the strike, the Cocos refused...
Sprig of a wealthy Lorraine family, Robert Schuman has been a parliament member since 1919, got his first ministry in 1940. A hard-working widower of frugal tastes, he lives in one room, takes all his meals at the Assembly restaurant, where the prix fixe is 120 francs ($1). The Nazis arrested him in 1940, but he escaped after seven months in a German fortress...