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Besides a stronger executive, the M.R.P. wanted a bicameral legislature and an independent judiciary; on all counts it was outvoted by narrow majorities. Its spokesmen-eloquent Maurice Schumann and quiet Francois de Menthon-warned against "government by the Assembly. " Veteran Radical-Socialist Edouard Herriot echoed them: "This will inevitably mean dictatorship by the majority party. . . . Separation of legislative and executive powers, the essential foundation of democracy, has been cast to the winds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Constitution of the Left | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...long-familiar French voice last week backed up MRP's stand against the new leftist definition of liberty. Aging Edouard Herriot struck out: "Freedom of the press and freedom of discussion have foundered. . . . We must . . . reconquer our liberties and return to the normal rules of democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: 14th Try | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Plan Green also provided for an "incident" to provoke German intervention. One idea: to kill Germany's minister to Prague and blame it on the Czechs. The timely intervention of Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier at Munich saved Minister Dr. Ernst Eisenlohr's life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Day of Judgment | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Bigger issues were at stake than just filling the seat vacated by ailing Edouard Lacroix, Bloc Populaire member. This time no Bloc candidate ran. Aside from a Social Crediter who was just practicing, the contest was between candidates of Quebec's two major parties-ex-Premier Adelard Godbout's Liberals and Premier Maurice Duplessis' Union Nationale. The Liberals hoped to reduce the Government's slim majority in the Legislative Assembly (lower House), then turn the Liberal-dominated Legislative Council (upper House) loose on Government bills, and force an early general election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: POLITICS: Bustle in Beauce | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

Other standouts: a competently sumptuous Nude at the Mirror, by Georges Capon; Edouard Goerg's fuzzy, dreamy Midnight Bouquet, reminiscent of the 19th-Century Romanticist Odilon Redon; and Astarté, by André Marchand. Marchand, in his 30s, is considered one of the "younger" painters. His picture of green flesh, black water and blue sand was startling in a show full of surprises. The most surprising thing about it was that he had painted the sky blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Big Three | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

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