Word: auriolism
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Temperatures ran high. Socialist Minister of the Interior Edouard Depreux had police reinforcements patrolling the center of Paris all night. Radio stations received instructions on what to do in case of sabotage. President of the Republic Auriol was away in Africa (see below), and his standin, good, grey Edouard Herriot, was abed in Lyons with acute phlebitis. In the absence of Auriol or Herriot, the First Vice President of the Assembly, Communist Jacques Duclos, would be interim President of the Republic. Panicky M.R.P. Minister of Justice Pierre-Henri Teitgen sent a special plane to bring Herriot to Paris...
...Lost Spring. Marshall's first stop was Paris, where President Vincent Auriol gave a dinner in his honor at the Elysée Palace's somber Salle Murat. On the guest of honor's right sat Jeannette Vermeersch Thorez, longtime mistress and now wife of France's Communist boss. The First Lady of French Communism speaks no English, and Marshall has forgotten most of his French; so hardly a syllable passed between the table companions in the flickering candlelight, while Jeannette vigorously concentrated on her dinner (Consomme Camelia, Timbale Joinville, Jambon d'York, Baltimore Laitue...
...concentrated on interviews. In Paris he sat down with Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, Premier Paul Ramadier, President Vincent Auriol, Communist Labor Boss Benoit Frachon, and a raft of other politicians and industrialists. In his off-hours he hustled through the Renault and Chausson factories (autos and trucks) and a textile plant; he talked with businessmen, workers, storekeepers. He had the usual trouble with the French telephone system...
...accompaniment of rolling drums, Vincent Auriol had walked slowly out to the waiting car. Said he, with a sense of impending crisis: "I must go fast." Within half an hour he had received from Leon Blum the resignation of the interim Socialist government...
...Auriol's first act was to hand the task of forming a government to tufted Paul Ramadier, a Socialist, who had been Minister of Food in 1944 and more recently Minister of Justice. Ramadier's manner is so retiring that in the Resistance he was given the code name of "Violet...