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...again, outgoing Socialist Premier Guy Mollet instead recommended Radical Socialist René Billéres, who had been Education Minister in Mollet's recently defeated government. Billeres backed away ("I didn't consider myself qualified"), but he had a candidate in mind: fellow Radical Socialist Maurice Bourgés-Maunoury. 42. the Defense Minister in Mollet's government. Thus, without seeming to promote a former minister who was unpopular in Socialist ranks on account of his aggressive Algerian policy, Mollet obliquely named his man. It was the signal that ambitious Bourgés-Maunoury had been waiting...
...Bourgés-Maunoury had first to win approval of his own deeply divided Radical Socialist Party, among whom are such antagonists as Pierre Mendes-France and such influential though relatively unknown anti-Europeans as diminutive Newspaper Owner Jean Baylet, whose Dépéche du Midi circulates its narrow message throughout France's poorer South. Radicals questioned Bourges sharply about his plans, finally voted 44 to 10 that he take his first step. Muttered a Radical Deputy: "That doesn't mean we've approved him yet as Premier...
...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...
Mendès' solution for the problem is to turn it over to two of his Cabinet members, one ardently for EDC (Radical Maurice Bourgés-Maunoury) and the other (Defense Minister Pierre Koenig, a Gaullist) with a strong aversion for putting French soldiers under any supranational authority. He told them to work something...