Word: centrist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first crisis, he had been backed by the Gaullists. Last week, both the "Cocos" and the Gaullists were against him. Their motives were different, but both attacked the centrist government to win popularity and power (Paris wiseacres predicted that De Gaulle would make his bid in March or April). The strange political bedfellowship was caused by the old political axiom that you can always catch a vote by attacking higher taxes...
Three facts stood out: 1) Charles de Gaulle's R.P.F. won a smashing victory, now held more votes than any other party (6,000,000); 2) Georges Bidault's centrist M.R.P. was all but dead, with more than two-thirds of its voters having gone over to De Gaulle; 3) the Communists, though knocked off their perch as France's largest party, had essentially held their...
...Madison the political jockeying occured quite conspicuously: at virulent odds were the Catholic colleges, representing some 35 percent of the votes, and the Communist-Party-led delegates (from duly-invited front organizations and campuses where those influence elections), representing perhaps 9 percent of the votes. In between stood a centrist liberal 17 percent organized by Don S. Willner '47--national chairman of Students for Democratic Action--to check the aggressive forward positions taken by both extremes. Forty percent of the Convention's strength did not engage in concerted activity. Nevertheless when the chips were down the slate of officers advanced...
...more dangerous outside the Government than in it. Now that they had sided with the strikers, their grip on the labor unions was firmer than ever before -and through them they had a grip on France's entire economy. It was doubtful whether brave little Ramadier's centrist Government could run the country against Communist opposition. Inside Ramadier's own Socialist Party, a large faction, still bitterly opposed to the break with the Communists, might force Ramadier's resignation. Worried Frenchmen saw two alternatives: 1) the Communists would triumphantly return to the Government, stronger than ever...
...Catholic Centrist M.R.P., and its leader, President Georges Bidault, a resounding slap. Only one-third of its members voted for the Constitution the party had cosponsored. The Socialists also were divided, but the Communists, as usual, voted in a disciplined phalanx...