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...been too good to last. For a while, after France had seized the initiative in Western Europe by putting forth the Schuman Plan, it had looked as if the volatile French had finally settled down. But last week they went on a political spree again. Even as it was playing host to the Schuman Plan conference, Premier Georges Bidault's eight-month-old government lost a vote of confidence in the Assembly, was forced to resign...
...walked right into it, said flatly: "These claims are often justified, but it is the government's duty to say what is possible and what is not possible." He pointed to France's increased economic stability, pleaded: "Defeat of the cabinet would upset the negotiations on the Schuman Plan...
...Socialists said they were all for the Schuman Plan, but they regretfully voted Bidault out, anyway...
Silence. The pamphlet hit the world like a slap in the face. Cried ECA's Paul Hoffman: "Deplorable isolationism! . . ." France's Robert Schuman said with Gallic politeness: "I am surprised." It was, he added, "a brutal decision...
...Schuman Plan (the French Socialists, who support the plan, were so annoyed with their British comrades that they sent only one delegate). Dalton was unusually quiet. The conference broke up a day early, issued a polite communique which carefully skirted the real issues...