Word: schuman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Auriol then turned to a highly regarded man of the M.R.P. (Popular Republicans), 61-year-old Finance Minister Robert Schuman. M. Schuman roundly denounced the Communists and no one else. Consequently no one voted against him but the "Cocos" and a few mavericks. Py a vote of 412 to 184, Robert Schuman became France's new Premier...
After some strenuous haggling, M. Schuman announced a cabinet composed of Socialists, Popular Republicans and Radicals (centrists), plus one moderate Independent Republican. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was kept at his post; the important Ministries of Interior (police) and of Social Affairs (labor) went to Socialists Jules Modi and Daniel Mayer...
...turned around, ruefully contemplated a starving nation pockmarked by 36,000 Communist cells, and promptly resigned. His government had failed in every political and economic crisis. France was on the verge of a civil war that would preclude any American aid. Ramadier's successor, ex-finance minister Robert Schuman, is charged with an immense task--that of tramping Communism under a vigorous and potent democracy. His success or failure might well set the future pattern of current American plans to choke off Russian expansion, for France is the keystone in the Marshall Plan...
...Schuman faces exactly the same problems that defeated the Ramadier regime: a grossly inflated economy that has scaled prices fifty percent above normal with only a twenty-five percent wage increase and a suicidal factionalism among France's myriad political parties. To replace the vacuum that characterized Ramadier's ten months in power, Schuman proposes stringent budget supervision, a wholesale stabilization of national currency, and an all-out war against Communist-inspired strikes. His purely economic solutions can be effected through prudent government alone, but when M. Schuman intends to crush the present widespread strikes, he must deal with unions...
...nation that bases its entire political structure on a shifting and complex mass of minor parties, any coordinated government becomes a highly dubious proposition. France is the home of such small fry. Its National Assembly is composed of every political shade from rabid red to gouty blue. M. Schuman must compose these squabbling factions if he even dreams of a successful regime. His only real hope lies in the tremendous mandate of 412 votes to 184 awarded him by the Assembly...