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...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...
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...
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...
...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...