Word: auriolism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elysée Palace in Paris, President of the Republic Vincent Auriol drummed his fingers on the desk at which Napoleon I signed his abdication after Waterloo. Intent on a journey, Vincent Auriol was trying to remember if everything, every last detail, had been taken care of. This week he (with his wife Michele) sails on the Ile de France, the first French President to visit...
...March 30, after a white-tie dinner for the Trumans and a few others, M. Auriol will give a reception to which he, as an old parliamentarian himself, plans to invite every member of the Senate and the House. To handle the overflow, the embassy is putting up a large green and white tent, with a wooden floor...
...unspoken purpose of M. Auriol's visit is to symbolize and exploit the recent upsurge of understanding between France and the U.S. The French President will have some good news to report, including: 1) the Assembly seems close to a single-ballot, majority-vote, solution for France's vexing electoral-reform problem, which will probably leave the Communists out in the cold; 2) the Schuman plan for Western Europe's coal & steel has been initialed by all parties concerned (see below...
Through the Revolving Door. Worried President Vincent Auriol, after reluctantly accepting the resignation, rushed conferences with party leaders about forming a new government. Far into Wednesday night, party leaders followed each other through the gates of the Elysee Palace. Cracked Independent Deputy Emmanuel Temple, one of France's best fencers: "It is not enough that they call you away from the salle d'armes in the mornings, but I can't find time to sleep at night." An exasperated M.R.P. Deputy huffed...
Late Saturday, Auriol turned the job over to Guy Mollet, secretary general of the Socialist Party. Next day, the same politicians who had trekked to Auriol's office on Thursday, Bidault's on Friday, and Queuille's on Saturday, waited on Mollet at his headquarters in the Ministry of the Council of Europe. After several hours of discussion, Mollet cautiously announced that he thought he could form a new cabinet. His plan was to ignore the electoral reform issue, leave it up to the unguided will of the Assembly...