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Last week, when it came his turn to face the corrida, Félix Gaillard got the full treatment. To his plaintive declaration that if France will not trust its allies "we are before a crisis of extreme gravity," Conservative Deputy Raymond Triboulet jeeringly retorted: "You're not before one, you're in one." At Gaillard's protestations of U.S. solidarity with France, Jean-Marie Le Pen, a right-wing tough elected as a Poujadist, interrupted: "Of the two dangers that menace the independence of France-Bolshevik Russia and the United States-the latter...
Rattles & Fairy Tales. With an assurance born of experience-it was he who only six months ago led the attack that toppled Gaillard's predecessor, Maurice Bourgès-Maunoury-Soustelle began by labeling Gaillard a "puppet" of the U.S. "If French policy is made in Washington," said Soustelle, "did you call the Assembly back here to play with baby rattles? A week ago you said the good offices mission was at an impasse. What caused you to change your mind? Only one new fact: the letter from Eisenhower...
...Pure fairy tale," snapped Gaillard...
After Sundown. The effect of this "friendly warning" on the Gaillard government was electric. When the crucial Cabinet meeting opened at 9 a.m., right-wing ministers were breathing heavily over U.S. "interference in French affairs," adamantly proclaiming their determination to resign rather than agree to "excessive concessions" to Tunisia. But two hours after sundown, when liveried footmen finally flung open the doors to mark the end of the session, florid right-wing Agriculture Minister Roland Boscary-Monsservin told waiting reporters: "There have been no resignations. The government has reached a decision in principle...
...Guard. Thanks to Ike's intervention, the good-offices mission had won a reprieve, but neither it nor Félix Gaillard was yet out of the woods. In exchange for their agreement to renewed negotiations with Bourguiba, the right-wingers had obliged Gaillard to call the National Assembly back two weeks early from its Easter vacation to pass judgment on the new policy. This week France's parliamentarians converged on Paris, ready to make sure that no French Premier retreated one step from their determination to seek a military solution in Algeria, at whatever cost...