Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris grim-faced Premier Pierre Pflimlin hastily called an emergency Cabinet meeting to deal with the second uprising against the Fourth Republic in twelve days. Early next morning Pflimlin's tape-recorded voice boomed out from the radios of France condemning the Corsican insurgents as "a handful of rebels" who "are seeking to drag us down the slope which leads to civil...
...Great Silence. The delicate-and for the first two weeks, bloodless-state of balance could not last indefinitely, for two great forces were in a deadly duel to determine the fate of France. Defending the Fourth Republic was testy Premier Pierre Pflimlin, armed with constitutionality and the tough internal security forces commanded by stooped, whitehaired Interior Minister Jules Moch.* On the attack were the insurgents of Algeria, armed with the bulk of France's effective military strength and the full-throated approval of the Algiers mob. Off to one side, waiting for a summons to take over, stood towering...
...skillfully played upon by De Gaulle himself, that odd, proud man who satisfied no one but who was many people's choice as a last resort. During his jam-packed Paris press conference at the beginning of the week, the man who boasts that he brought the Fourth Republic into existence gave open encouragement to Algeria's rebellious soldiers and settlers, noted sardonically that they "have not been the object of any sanctions on the part of the public authorities . . . Why would you have me call them sedition-mongers?" But at the same time the general made...
...Pflimlin was faced with the harsh task of demonstrating here and now his capacity to give France an effective government. In the National Assembly Pflimlin won "victory" after "victory''-including a committee vote approving his hastily drafted plan to revise the constitution so as to give the Fourth Republic stronger, longer-lived Cabinets. But when it came to the issue on which his government must stand or fall-its ability to re-establish control over the insurgents of Algeria-the only tactic Pflimlin found was to pretend that the insurgents were not really insurgents...
...Algiers. The clear implication: Pflimlin was convinced that, no matter how great the provocation, he could not try to bring Algiers to heel by force. And since there was no apparent hope of bringing Algiers to heel any other way, the likelihood was that in the end the Fourth Republic would be obliged to capitulate to the insurgents -and to Charles de Gaulle...