Word: bourg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seats (from 95 down to 40). Among defeated Socialists were ex-Premier Paul Ramadier, Christian Pineau, Robert Lacoste and Jules Moch. The Radical Party, a dominant force in French politics since 1875, saw four of its ex-Premiers (Pierre Mendés-France, Daladier, Edgar Faure and Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury) go down to defeat. Also consigned to political oblivion: rabble-rousing near-fascist Pierre Poujade...
Rattles & Fairy Tales. With an assurance born of experience-it was he who only six months ago led the attack that toppled Gaillard's predecessor, Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury-Soustelle began by labeling Gaillard a "puppet" of the U.S. "If French policy is made in Washington," said Soustelle, "did you call the Assembly back here to play with baby rattles? A week ago you said the good offices mission was at an impasse. What caused you to change your mind? Only one new fact: the letter from Eisenhower...
...with the information that Gaillard was wanted by the President of the Republic. He summoned a policeman. The aide finally convinced them his business was urgent. Athletic, 37-year-old Felix Gaillard (TIME, Sept. 23), Minister of Finance in the outgoing government of 43-year-old Caretaker Premier Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, hopped out of bed. shaved, dressed and rushed to Coty. Shortly after 5 a.m. the blunt, fatherly President told Gaillard: form a government, and quickly...
Oracle in Paris. As the realization that there was a majority against Bourgès-Maunoury but no majority for anyone else dawned on France, it became conceivable that what had begun as a crise grave* might end as a crise de régime, i.e., the ultimate crisis of the Fourth Republic, which would force a fundamental change in its structure...
...cadre had already been rejected out of hand by the Algerian National Liberation Movement, but it might have had an effect on other war-weary Algerian Moslems. Now, even should it pass and Bourgès-Maunoury remain in office, the loi-cadre no longer stood as a shadowy promise of a political solution to the rebellion. Instead, it is a document which says that France intends to hang on in Algeria, whatever the rest of the world says...