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...more splinter group to the eleven squabbling parties in the French National Assembly. Thirty Gaullist Deputies and five Senators who bolted R.P.F. in protest against its "negative and sterile attitude" towards Premier Antoine Pinay (TIME, July 14) formed something called the Independent Group for Republican and Social Action. Edmond Barrachin, the fast-talking Parisian columnist who led the revolt, was elected president. De Gaulle thereupon serenely announced that the defectors had not quit; they had been fired for refusing to obey orders...
...defection of the Barrachinistes cost R.P.F. its cock-of-the-walk No. 1 position in the National Assembly. Reduced from 115 seats to 85, the Gaullists now rank as No. 3 after Socialists (104 seats) and Communists (96). For Premier Pinay, the splintering was one more lucky break. Barrachin's group noisily insists that they are still Gaullists at heart, and that they would resist the Schuman Plan and the European Army as bitterly as De Gaulle himself. But on economic issues, about which Pinay cares most, the Barrachinistes would do their best to save the franc. They proved...
Deputy Edmond Barrachin, a fast-talking and well-to-do Parisian columnist, was up on his feet in a flash. Supporting Pinay, he cried, was "not a question of right or left. It was a question of saving the franc when the state had only 4 billion francs [$11.5 million] in its coffers." What riled Barrachin most was that the R.P.F.'s policy of wantonly toppling cabinet after cabinet in an effort to provoke their national catastrophe often led to diabolical alliances of Gaullists and Communists. Barrachin's colleague, Deputy Andre Bardon, had already resigned from R.P.F...
...this point 22 rebels, all members of the Assembly, including Barrachin and General Pierre Billotte, shoved their way out of the convention and across the street to a bistro. There they announced that they were quitting the R.P.F. for good. How many Gaullists would follow and vote with Pinay remained to be seen this week. Barrachin claimed 30 Deputies and 20 Senators; loyal Gaullists conceded him at least 30. With the Gaullists thus split, Premier Pinay's cabinet seemed assured a longer lease of life...
...happened. As his party caucus met to discuss France's latest attempt to form a government, there were rumblings of revolt in the Gaullist ranks. His followers thirsted for the plums of office. At the height of the caucus debate, the general turned on his loyal lieutenant, Edmond Barrachin: "Without me, sir, you would not be a Deputy." Snapped Barrachin: "Without you, mon Général, I would be a Minister." When the showdown came, Barrachin toed the party line, but 27 other Gaullists bolted. They were still right-wingers, but they felt that the time...