Word: auriolism
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...prefer pressure to violence. Yet the ferment of Moslem nationalism is reaching west toward Morocco. Last autumn there were election riots. Last week the Sultan, Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef, who was once mistakenly thought to be a safe man for France, dispatched a letter to President Vincent Auriol demanding more local rule...
Businessman's Flyer. Antoine Pinay, 60, was on a Paris-bound train when the stationmaster at Dijon handed him President Auriol's telegram inviting him to try his hand at forming a cabinet. Pinay, an Independent Republican, had never considered himself a likely Premier. With his neat crinkly hair, his long thin face, glasses, and his trim little mustache, he looked just what he was: a small-town French businessman...
Urgently, President Auriol cast about for a new Premier. His first choice: nimble Paul Reynaud, Premier of France during the collapse of 1940. An old hand at coalition building (he has been in & out of six French cabinets), Reynaud is also a top-notch economist...
Once again, in quiet desperation, aging President Vincent Auriol took top hat in hand, went begging from party to party in search of a cabinet...
...Much Luxury. Even more dismaying than her economic woes and her political divisions are the rigid inequities which strain French morality. Cried President Auriol in a recent speech: "I know what makes people most impatient today: too much luxury, too much comfort, too much ease, side by side with too much poverty and penury." Sample injustices...