Word: crise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After the Coffee. The crisis was long abuilding, and a surprise to no one when it came: the only question was which of France's innumerable Cabinet crises would produce the crise de regime. France had been without a government since the fall of Felix Gaillard a month earlier; two would-be Premiers had tried to put together majorities and had failed. Now testy, white-haired Pierre Pflimlin...
...right-wing Independents, a vital element in Premier Gaillard's rickety government coalition, promptly repudiated all the concessions which they had agreed to only two weeks before. In the corridors of the National Assembly, there were ominous whispers that the time was at hand for the crise de regime-the final crisis that would bring down the Fourth Republic...
...French scale of reckoning, a crise grave, which involves major issues, ranks one degree above a crise banale, which is a consequence of pure partisan fighting...
Oracle in Paris. As the realization that there was a majority against Bourgès-Maunoury but no majority for anyone else dawned on France, it became conceivable that what had begun as a crise grave* might end as a crise de régime, i.e., the ultimate crisis of the Fourth Republic, which would force a fundamental change in its structure...
...always does, the mere thought of a crise de régime turned the talk to the ever-ready strongman, General de Gaulle. By the sheerest coincidence, the hawk-nosed wartime leader, now 66, chose last week to make one of his periodic excursions to Paris. Typically, De Gaulle's utterances had a Delphic quality. Said he: "You tell me that the political men of all groups are unanimous in affirming that only De Gaulle can find a solution. But name me one person who has said so in Parliament." Then he added: "I could not make peace...