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Multiply a Vermonter by ten and you have the rugged individualism of a normal Frenchman. Such sweeping powers as are now held by President Roosevelt, the French people will grant to no President or Premier. To them last week it seemed a bold challenge when Premier Gaston Doumergue announced that this week?so help him?he will demand that the Constitution be changed to give a Premier of France roughly the powers of a Prime Minister of Great Britain...
With only the nation behind him, Great Little Gaston pushed on against the politicians. This week he will ask Chamber and Senate to go to Versailles and there in joint session as the National Assembly amend the Constitution to: 1) raise the Premier who is now primus inter pares ("first among equals") to explicit leadership of his Ministers; 2) empower the President, one year or more after election of the Chamber, to dissolve it without the consent of the Senate; 3) empower the Government to punish strikes within the career ranks of French civil servants by dismissal; 4) provide that...
Paris, Nov. 6--Premier Gaston Doumergue's "salvation" coalition cabinet narrowly averted downfall today when members of the opposition radical-socialist party bloc in parliament voted to continue the political truce until Thursday...
...assure the peace of the world. . . . But if good international work is to be done there must first be good national work, and that can only be secured by union. Disunited peoples are weak, and weak peoples are a prey and a danger." With his voice breaking, little Gaston reached his climax: "To desire peace is not to obtain it. Let us oppose to passion our will for peace, but let us support it with an unbreakable resolution to hold force in check whenever it is not in the service of right." Reporters who have seen many state funerals...
...atmosphere strained as the inside of a tiger cage, France last week held its first election since Gaston Doumergue took over the Premiership during the bloody riots which followed the Stavisky disclosures (TIME. Feb. 19). At stake were local provincial offices everywhere except in Paris. Month or so ago any political prophet would have said that the public's never-ceasing indignation at the corruption revealed by the "Stavisky affair" would be the major issue in any French election. But fortnight ago Papa Doumergue, in a drive to push through his proposed reforms of the French Constitution (TIME...