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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...
...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...
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...