Word: bourges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
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...
...audibly grumbling Deputies had their own ill-tempered answer for Bourgès' attitude: they voted 240 to 194 to make him Premier, installing him with fewer votes than Socialist Guy Mollet had in his favor in losing...
Just before mounting the tribune, Bourgès had whispered to a friend: "If they try to trap me with specifics, I'll just read the speech back to them. If they ask more questions, I'll read it again. You'll see, they'll give up." The only thing remotely new in what he had to say was that he would propose a new "general law" in which pacified areas of Algeria would get increasing autonomy, free elections, Moslem instead of French officials, all leading eventually and vaguely to the abolition of the Government General...