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...didn't consider myself qualified"), but he had a candidate in mind: fellow Radical Socialist Maurice Bourgés-Maunoury. 42. the Defense Minister in Mollet's government. Thus, without seeming to promote a former minister who was unpopular in Socialist ranks on account of his aggressive Algerian policy, Mollet obliquely named his man. It was the signal that ambitious Bourgés-Maunoury had been waiting for. Said he, after 45 minutes with President Coty: "The nation needs a government. Being in Defense, I know...
...France was shocked. President Coty rushed to the hospital to bow before Chekkal's body; the funeral oration was delivered by Secretary of State for Algerian Affairs Marcel Champeix. While the Cairo radio crowed of a victory and urged terrorists on to greater efforts, police scoured the squalid Algerian quarters of Paris, hauled in 2,900 Moslems for questioning...
...23rd time since World War II, French politicians sweated through the ceremonial dance of trying to form a government. President René Coty first offered the premiership to René Pleven, then to Antoine Pinay. Both refused. Pleven had been Defense Minister during Dienbienphu, feared ugly comparisons with the Algerian war. Parliamentary arithmetic ruled out any candidate without Socialist support, something Right-Winger Pinay could not get. Finally, the President summoned tall, white-haired Pierre Pflimlin, 50, to his oak-paneled office at the Elysee Palace for a two-hour talk, then walked him to the threshold and said...
...reserves of gold and foreign currency are at a low in recent years. Said one Budget official: "We can always get the Bank of France to print more francs, but we cannot ask them to print dollars." With 1.5 billion francs ($4,000,000) going daily to fight the Algerian war, only increased taxes, severe import restrictions, a regime of real austerity, and perhaps a capital levy on hoarded gold, can put France's economy on its feet. But there is no sign that the French are ready for a strong government that will accept such unpalatable measures...
Tunisia: Worse. In Tunisia a 350-man French army unit, operating in a border area where Algerian rebels have sought refuge, found itself "surrounded" by Tunisian soldiers, and in the ensuing scuffle killed seven of them. In an angry speech to his people, Tunisia's normally moderate and pro-Western Premier Habib Bourguiba cried: "There must be no more French troop movements. We are not at war with France, but we are at war with the remnants of colonialism in Tunisia. We start the battle of evacuation today." At the end of his speech the crowd took...