Word: gaillard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants to take a necessary but unpopular step, he usually waits until the French Assembly is in recess so that he cannot be thrown out of office immediately. But the right-wingers in his Cabinet, who oppose any concessions in Algeria, were committed to quit in a body if Gaillard misstepped, and thus even in parliamentary recess his hands were tied...
...wing ministers stalked out to unburden their grievances in private audiences with France's genial President René Coty, who well knew that if they quit, it would be his job to find another Premier. While Coty did his best to smooth their feathers, harried Félix Gaillard, France's youngest (38) ruler since Napoleon Bonaparte, stalked the corridors of the Elysée palace, nervously lighting one Gitane cigarette off another...
...political situation here isn't going to change radically until some major disaster comes along. Premier Gaillard lives from day to day. He has got the Assembly off on Easter vacation. When it comes back he has only three weeks to survive until it recesses for senatorial elections in May. After that, it's only a matter of weeks until summer recess. But what difference does it make? Since the abominable 1956 elections, we've been the prisoners of division. Georges Bidault may try. But neither he nor his friends nor anybody else can make...
...distrust of Gaillard among the Independents is matched only by their horror at the prospect of taking over his job (and with it, the onus of settling with Tunisia). With ill grace, the right-wingers backed down, announced that they would postpone until this week their demand for a full statement from the Premier on the negotiations with Bourguiba. Sighed Felix Gaillard: "Another week of survival, but that...
...Gaillard can survive until this week's end, when the National Assembly goes on Easter vacation, he can look forward to a full month in which to work toward a settlement with Tunisia, free of parliamentary interference...