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Urgently, President Auriol cast about for a new Premier. His first choice: nimble Paul Reynaud, Premier of France during the collapse of 1940. An old hand at coalition building (he has been in & out of six French cabinets), Reynaud is also a top-notch economist...
...National Union." Hurrying back to Paris last week from Britain, where he had spoken before the Oxford Union (see EDUCATION), 73-year-old Paul Reynaud boldly turned his back on the formula of weak minority coalitions set by his predecessors. Instead, he appealed to all French parties, except the Communists, to join a "Government of National Union." It was a timely appeal for French patriotism, but as a political maneuver it failed. Socialists refused point-blank to sit in the same cabinet with Gaullists. Sadly, Paul Reynaud gave up trying. René Pleven, called upon next, refused even...
...distress our friends," said 73-year-old Paul Reynaud last week, "and are the laughing stock of our enemies...
...Americans wanted to know, for instance, why, after $12 billion of U.S. aid, Western Europe has made almost no "realistic progress" toward federation. France's ex-Premier Paul Reynaud tried to explain. "The main stumbling block is Britain," he said. "She refuses to join . . . the European army and the Schuman plan for pooling coal and steel. For the British there is Parliament, then nothing, then still nothing, then...
...British (unofficially represented by Tory M.P. Robert Boothby) disliked Reynaud's accusations, but could not quite dismiss them. They talked of Britain's interlocking circles: partnership with Commonwealth and Empire, alliance with the U.S., and treaty with Western Europe. Wanting to operate in all three circles, Britain is unwilling to unite with the continental countries; Scandinavia won't unite with them unless Britain does, and the other countries refuse to unite among themselves without ,the British and Scandinavians...