Word: bourges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After three weeks without a government, logic demanded that France find a solution to her current parliamentary crisis. Grudgingly the politicians slipped into their red velvet seats in the National Assembly to hear what Premier-designate Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury had to say for himself. Alone on the bench where tradition requires candidate Premiers to sweat out their ordeal, youthful (42), high-domed little Bourgès-Maunoury had an attack of stage fright...
...army officer with a hard-earned World War II resistance record, he is a man of proven courage. A minister in six postwar governments, who as head of Defense had spearheaded the Suez adventure and the get-tough Algerian policy, he has political experience, ambition, determination. What probably caused Bourgès' voice to break like an adolescent's as he read out his speech was that he knew as well as everyone else that his program offered no solution for France's financial crisis, no hope for an early end to the Algerian...
...next move came from the Socialists. The hundred Socialist Deputies had taken a pledge: they would serve only under a Socialist Premier. Last week, in a complete about-face, they said they would take part in a government formed by Radical Socialist Bourgés-Maunoury. The surprise decision gave Bourges a better-than-even chance of forming a government...
Strong Man. Bourgés-Maunoury is the son of a distinguished Norman family and a graduate of the famed Ecole Polytechnique. He served France well during World War II, first as an artillery officer, then as a resistance fighter parachuted into France from Britain. During the invasion of Normandy he was dropped behind the German lines to organize sabotage, was severely wounded, ended the war with the rank of colonel and a chestful of medals, including the Compaction de la Libération (held by only 600 living Frenchmen). A Deputy since 1946. he has served in a dozen...
...test for Bourgés-Maunoury wfas his ability to form a Cabinet. Almost immediately he ran into trouble with the Catholic M.R.P., which declared it would not participate in his government but might be persuaded if the Foreign Ministry were given either to Pflimlin or that old Quai d'Orsay veteran and Catholic, Robert Schuman. If he made it, Bourges would be the youngest Premier of France in the 2Oth century...