Word: gaillard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advance agent for President Eisenhower, who arrives tomorrow, Dulles met with French Premier Felix Gaillard, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, and NATO's secretary general, Paul-Henri Speak...
...Eisenhower's new drive to restore a unity of purpose among the Allies, Dulles heard Gaillard state his price-support for France's attempt to maintain its influence in troubled North Africa...
...legalistic Frenchman could argue last week that the Algerian rebellion was a strictly domestic problem. Morocco's Mohammed V conferred with Secretary Dulles about it in Washington, the U.N. debated it in New York, and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan went to Paris to reassure Premier Félix Gaillard of British backing (but refused to pledge that Britain under no circumstances would supply more arms to Tunisia...
...Paris Gaillard drove through the long-delayed loi-cadre (framework law) to give Algeria limited home rule. Only two months ago the Assembly had cut a more liberal draft to shreds and so brought down Gaillard's predecessor. Partly because Deputies were unwilling to overturn a brand-new government, partly because the new Premier had prudently pruned away the clauses most objectionable to right-wing nationalists, the bill was approved by a 269-to-200 vote...
...Vote. Gaillard's loi-cadre reaffirms that Algeria, land of 1,000,000 Europeans and 8,700,000 Moslems, is "an integral part of the French Republic." It provides for six territorial assemblies, but requires that each assembly share its powers with appointive "Councils of Communities," whose members will be named by a French governor on the basis of a fifty-fifty split between French and Moslems. A new electoral law abolished the old system, which weighted voting in favor of "non-Moslems" (French), and replaced it with universal suffrage. This was qualified by a system of proportional representation...