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...next Premier will have the power to bring about the Assembly's dissolution any time in the coming 18 months-in the event that an absolute majority of the Assembly should disapprove of his government-France's seat-hugging Deputies were favorably disposed towards Bidault, President Auriol's third Premier-designate in three weeks. After the action-demanding appeals of Reynaud and Mendès-France. Bidault seemed like a tired juggler, but one who would not miss a throw...
...Long Chance. The moment had come for President Auriol to call on 55-year-old André Marie, a veteran of Buchenwald, a member of Herriot's moderately conservative Radical Socialist Party, and a short-lived Premier (35 days) back in 1948. Said Herriot "We should show no party preoccupations. I beg of you with all my soul, think only of France...
Meanwhile, President Auriol sent for an old hand to be next to try. His choice: Acting Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. Bidault is no man to offend the union rules among ministers by demanding undue personal sacrifices of them...
Said René Mayer: "Once again a singularly inopportune demonstration of that phenomenon of political instability which discredits France in the world and the regime in the country." At week's end President Vincent Auriol was still scanning the hills for sight of a new Premier...
...simply touched off a fresh storm to the south, in the new village of Oradour. The villagers lowered their tricolor, removed from its place of honor the Croix de Guerre awarded by the government to mark Oradour's ordeal, dispatched an irate protest to President Vincent Auriol: "Oradour, which until now recalled Nazi brutality, will in the future be remembered as a symbol of unpunished crime...