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...Socialists committed the unforgivable political sin: they sold out, and then refused to stay bought. What they wanted desperately was postponement of local elections scheduled for October. They hoped the voters would forget the irresponsible Socialist desertion that had brought about the fall of Premier Robert Schuman's government (TiME, July...
...Schuman's M.R.P. and Marie's Radical Socialists needed the Socialists' votes to form a coalition government. They agreed to the election postponement and voted for it. The Communists also wanted the elections postponed because they, too, had been losing strength, and they feared that Charles de Gaulle's R.P.F. would show gains if the elections took place...
...Hague conference on Western Union (TIME, Aug. 2), France had proposed formation of a Western European parliament. The idea had been turned down as premature by Britain's Ernie Bevin and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak. But last week France's doughty Foreign Minister Robert Schuman again went...
What next? Nobody knew, least of all the Socialists. Perhaps another coalition; perhaps even another try for Schuman with a reshuffled cabinet. Perhaps, though improbably, the Assembly would dissolve itself and give Charles de Gaulle a chance in a general election...
Asked for a statement, Schuman kept his record of good sense and dry humor. Said he: "The way in is the time to make statements...