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...probation; it was clear that France would have to come forth with something more specific than last winter's vague promises. Last week, as the U.N. prepared to open its 12th General Assembly meeting and its corridors began to echo with talk of Algeria, French Premier Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury announced his new plan for Algeria, and called Parliament into special session to consider it. Bourgès, 43, France's youngest Premier since 1883, could expect trouble for his plan in the unruly French Assembly. His plan did not even have the full support...
...turned out to be more progressive than first hints indicated (TIME, Sept. 2). Under the Bourgès plan Algeria would be divided into autonomous federal territories, each with its own legislative assembly, elected by Moslems and Europeans on a basis of "universal, equal and secret suffrage" (voting now is weighted in favor of Europeans). Although the government's draft law did not say so, the territories would probably be so carved that Europeans would control two assemblies, and Moslems the other four. After a two-year cooling-off period, during which France would seek to end the fighting...
Though the plan said nothing about granting independence to Algeria, its critics argued that once fighting stopped "no French government would dare start it up again," and in creating an Algerian assembly, France was in effect creating a legitimate body that would soon be demanding the right of secession.* Bourgès' own Defense Minister, tall, slim André Morice threatened to resign on grounds that "this is going too far" toward independence. If Bourgès can convince his own Assembly that he has not gone too far, France must then convince the U.N. that it has gone...
Sitting at the side of Premier Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury, his friend and frequent tennis opponent, was the young man entrusted with saving France from economic folly. Handsome, lanky Félix Gaillard at 37 is France's youngest Finance Minister of the century. A man who comes from the cognac country, wears the Rosette of the Resistance, plays clean classic piano and dirty rock 'n' roll, Politician Gaillard is a man with a mission. For his colleagues he drew a lucid and gloomy picture...
Unable to have his way, Gaillard offered his resignation to President Coty, who had to put off his own holiday departure for the French Alps. For the final session at Bourgès-Maunoury's house in suburban Saint Germain, ex-Premier Guy Mollet was brought in to swing his Socialists into line. Then the Premier announced to the waiting reporters that 550 billion francs had been whacked off the estimates; over the weekend technicians would try to slice off the remaining 50 billion to satisfy Gaillard. The youngest Finance Minister promised to make his resignation "conditional," i.e., staying...