Word: auriolism
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Foreign Affairs continued in the hands of Popular Republican Georges Bidault. A "brain trust" of four Ministers of State included Communist Maurice Thorez, Socialist Vincent Auriol, Popular Republican Francisque Gay, Rightist Louis Jacquinot...
...Died. Auriol Lee, 60, be-monocled stage director and onetime actress; in an auto accident near Hutchinson, Kans. She appeared on London and New York stages for 30 years, directed the plays of John Van Druten...
Minister of Justice Auriol, when he found such jibes were to be posted all over France, went purple with fury on the Government bench, threatened to resign and made such a scene that finally Senator Gardey himself persuaded the Senate to cancel its order for posting up his speech...
...Senate seemed more than ready to vote to moderates like Chautemps & Bonnet full powers to deal-with the French crisis which they had been unwilling to give to radicals like Blum & Auriol, but it was an exciting question last week whether the Chamber, which had twice supported Blum & Auriol on this issue, would now support Chautemps & Bonnet...
Moreover, there were only 20,000,000 paper francs left in the Treasury, said M. Bonnet, and if 400,000,000 francs had not immediately been forthcoming from savings banks. "Treasury payments would have ceased." As to the profits realized by M. Auriol from his devaluation of the franc last year and used by the Treasury to defend its currency, these are exhausted, and M. Bonnet tersely declared: "It is impossible to hold the franc at its present rate...