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...only one in his area to vote for German arms. The Catholics of the M.R.P. had already heard from their Christian Democrat colleagues in Germany and Italy (Amintore Fanfani, boss of the Italian Christian Democrats, made a missionary trip to Paris). In their caucus, "good European" Robert Schuman announced that he intended to vote yes, and was greeted by jeers from the unforgiving followers of Georges Bidault...
Spoilers at Work. With only a normal amount of querulous debate, Mendes won, 289 to 251, his first vote of confidence -German admission to NATO. Nine MRPers joined Schuman in voting for approval. Briskly, Mendes proposed an immediate vote on the second question of confidence-reversal of last week's vote on an armed Germany in the Western European Union...
Confidence Accorded. But next day the Assembly's delays ran out. Facing up to the inevitable, Bidault bargained with Schuman: they agreed to cancel each other out by both abstaining. Another 16 MRPers decided to forget their bitterness against Mendes for the sake of Western unity. It was enough. From a slip of paper, the Assembly president read: "287 votes for, 260 against. Confidence is accorded...
...M.R.P.,divided between those who, like Bidault, wanted to vote against Men des whatever the cost to France, and those who, like onetime Foreign Minister Robert Schuman, would vote for Western unity, announced that it would abstain...
Still to be chosen: a successor to Jean Monnet as operational head of the Coal and Steel Authority. One favorite for the job: Robert Schuman, whose "Schuman Plan" started it all. Though politically the European dream stirs no great enthusiasm these days, the economic side of it is surprisingly perky. Largely as a result of the Schuman Plan, and its creation of a common tariff-free market, Jean Monnet reported last week that...