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...last days of his government, Pinay tried to arrange a secret meeting with West Germany's Konrad Adenauer at an old chateau outside Paris. Purpose of the meeting: to discuss renegotiation of the European Defense Community treaty. Adenauer was assured that Foreign Minister Robert Schuman would not be present. Facing a political crisis over Schuman's demand for unequivocal ratification and parliament's demand for amendments, Pinay hoped to escape his troubles by working out a deal with Germany...
Chancellor Adenauer sent one of his aides to Paris to sound out the French further, and what he learned disturbed the Chancellor. Adenauer turned down the invitation to the meeting on the grounds that 1) he is opposed to new negotiations before ratification, and 2) any discussion without Schuman would be improper...
Firmer Assurances. Robert Schuman, who has defended European unification through ten governments, was angry. Mayer had gone too far. The Gaullists thought he had not gone far enough...
Waiting Outside. His new cabinet includes 20 members of the previous Pinay cabinet, among them Defense Minister Rene Pleven. Biggest change was that of Georges Bidault for Robert Schuman as Foreign Minister. Both men are of the same party, the M.R.P. (Popular Republicans), but of very different character. A clandestine resistance leader, Bidault was De Gaulle's Foreign Minister in the Provisional government. Later he represented France at the San Francisco Conference, and vigorously pushed ratification of the agreements which are the basis of the present EDC negotiations. Premier in 1950, Vice Premier and Defense Minister in several governments...
...laws; escaped to North Africa in 1943, where he joined the Free French in Algiers. After the liberation of Paris, De Gaulle made him Public Works and Transportation Minister; later, French Commissioner for German Affairs. In 1947 he represented France at the U.N. As Finance Minister in the first Schuman cabinet, he devalued the franc over Sir Stafford Cripps's objections. Becoming Finance Minister again in 1951, he angered France (and helped topple the government of Rene Pleven) by introducing, and sticking to, an austerity budget plan. Commented Mayer: "A good Finance Minister is always unpopular." In debate...