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France's new Premier brought a fresh face into the tired gallery of politicians who have governed France since World War 11. Elected on his 38th birthday, Felix Gaillard became the youngest man to rule France since Napoleon Bonaparte became First Consul in 1799. "Of course," said one of Gaillard's aides last week, "Bonaparte also was very gifted...
...wealthy mining engineer and landowner, Gaillard was a precociously brilliant schoolboy, showed an early devotion to economics. After energetic wartime service in the resistance, he attended various international conferences as a financial expert, was elected to the Assembly (at 27) as a Radical Socialist in 1946, became a junior minister the next year. As Secretary of State to the Premier in 1953, he launched le plan Gaillard, a five-year program for atomic energy development. But he was little known to the French public until last summer, when as Finance Minister in the Bourges-Maunoury government, he courageously devalued...
Election & Ejection. As he faced the Assembly to ask for investiture last week, the emotional impact of the occasion imparted a tremor to Gaillard's normally resonant voice. Then he steadied and briskly outlined his program. Main points: special powers for pursuing the war in Algeria (including a new appeal to the rebels for a ceasefire, a new discussion of the loi cadre), a 100 billion-franc slash in government expenditures, new taxes and price controls...
...French government of Premier Felix Gaillard was threatened with possible overthrow in the French Assembly as a result of the move...
Radical Socialist Gaillard, the author of France's recent too-little-and-too-late partial devaluation of the franc, set out to persuade the conservatives and Socialists, who keep rejecting one another's candidates, that he should head a "government to defend the republic." The Socialists balked, but finally at week's end agreed to back him. Barring a last-minute hitch, Gaillard was to be voted into office this week, on his 38th birthday, as the youngest Premier in the history of modern France...