Word: depreux
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Dates: during 1947-1947
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Like Britain's, France's Socialist Government is dedicated to an economy planned from womb to tomb. Last week, in a five-page decree to France's morticians, Premier Paul Ramadier and Interior Minister Edouard Depreux offered a formula fixing the price for coffin-carrying in a two-horse hearse...
France's pudgy Minister of the Interior Edouard Depreux insisted that the plot was "widespread" and must be taken seriously. Said the Paris newspaper L'Aurore: "Lamballe? Why, there is, in that old Breton village, a street called 'L'Impasse du Haha.' . . ."** For reasons that will remain obscure to Americans this is regarded in France as a brilliant political crack, explaining everything...
Temperatures ran high. Socialist Minister of the Interior Edouard Depreux had police reinforcements patrolling the center of Paris all night. Radio stations received instructions on what to do in case of sabotage. President of the Republic Auriol was away in Africa (see below), and his standin, good, grey Edouard Herriot, was abed in Lyons with acute phlebitis. In the absence of Auriol or Herriot, the First Vice President of the Assembly, Communist Jacques Duclos, would be interim President of the Republic. Panicky M.R.P. Minister of Justice Pierre-Henri Teitgen sent a special plane to bring Herriot to Paris...
Moreover, Minister of the Interior Edouard Depreux had announced the capture of illegal arms stocks near Paris, and admitted that arms, in small quantities, were hidden "all over the place." The arms captured had disappeared from Air Ministry depots at a time when Communist Charles Tillon was Air Minister...
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