Even the most dedicated French parliamentarians are beginning to question how long the Fourth Republic's weak parliamentary systemof ineffectual Premiers and squabbling Assemblycan or should last. The latest critic: Robert Schuman, himself head of two of France's 24 postwar governments, and now newly elected president of the European Parliamentary Assembly. In the course of a speech on European integration given at the University of Virginia, Schuman injected a "marginal and probably incautious remark." Said he:
"From our experiences in the first World War, we knew how important it was to give one man the responsibility of organizing and leading troops of...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
