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...person whose rise to fame is based on the essential principle that government by the people must be based on law and order ... I nominate Robert Schuman, French Premier, as Man of the Year...
...sooner had Premier Robert Schuman's government beaten the Communist-fomented "state of insurrection" than the antiCommunist revolt in the ranks of French labor gathered speed. The blowoff came sooner than many observers had expected...
...next spring the new federation may have 2,000,000 members-as many as, or more than, the Communist remnant of the C.G.T. proper, which once (early in 1947) boasted 6,000,000 members. It was evident that Premier Schuman, who was recently photographed at a carnival gaily throwing balls, had thrown much more than that at French Communism. He had not only beaten the insurrection; he had shaken the patriotic and moderate elements of French labor out of Red control. The shrunken C.G.T. could not be a nightmare any longer; it could only be a nuisance...
...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...