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...Henri Queuille (Radical), 67, outgoing Premier, first to be asked by President Auriol to form a new government, refused, pleading ill health. ¶ Maurice Petsche (Independent), 55, able Minister of Finance in the retiring cabinet, gave up after one week. ¶ Robert Schuman (M.R.P.), 65, ex-Foreign Minister, refused. ¶ Rene Mayer (Radical), 56, ex-Minister of Justice, took a week to put a program together, failed to get the required confidence vote from the Assembly. ¶ Georges Bidault (M.R.P.), 51, ex-Premier, gave up after one day. ¶ Paul Reynaud (Independent), 72, Premier at the time of France...
Prosperity. German trade unions have virtually dropped the class-warfare creed. In the coal and steel industries the unions are jealous of their newly won right to share in management's decisions. Labor leaders are striding into statesmanship; they support the Schuman Plan, German rearmament. By choosing Christian Fette as chairman to succeed the late venerated Hans Böckler, the unions have affirmed their political independence. Stern, stubby Chairman Fette, 56, will not dance when the doctrinaire Socialist Party pipes; his business is practical gains for German workers...
...Schumacher, Adenauer's implacable political foe, has a more dramatic vision than the Chancellor. Schumacher better understands Communist aims and tactics. His Utopian goal is a "big Europe," a continent free from the Atlantic to the Soviet border; he considers the "little Europe" envisaged by projects like the Schuman Plan a trap on the road to his larger objective. This all-or-nothing attitude makes the Socialist boss a hard man for the West's statesmen to deal with. It also cuts down Schumacher's popularity in western Germany...
...minutes. The prince rushed into the room in his general's uniform and drew himself stiffly to attention. "Dear Papa, dear maman" he burst out, "I'm terribly sorry. I couldn't help it. I had to stop to receive Acheson, Bevin and Schuman." The King nodded gravely, excused the boy and waved him to his seat...
...plugging the peace theme. Communist papers complain of Ridgway's truculence in breaking off the talks, represent the Communists as "patient," the U.S. as "power mad." The London Daily Worker printed a photomontage showing five smiling world leaders sitting around a conference table: Truman, Stalin, France's Schuman, Britain's Attlee and Red China's Mao Tse-tung. Banner: THESE FIVE MEN CAN MAKE PEACE. Caption: "This is the picture the world is waiting...