Word: auriolism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of parliamentary regimes had France been a whole month without a Premier. "A moral and social crisis," said President Vincent Auriol, calling on 21 leading French politicians to pick a man for the job. They could not agree. The Socialists walked out. But 18 others, including nine ex-Premiers, worked out measures they thought they could all agree on, at least long enough to form a government. On this basis, President Auriol asked one of them, Antoine Pinay, a small-town leather merchant who was Premier for most of last year, to try. Pinay agreed "to think it over...
...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...