Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doubts and criticisms spring up within me," wailed Gaullist Michel Debre. "No way seems to be sure, no solution seems to be the ideal." An Independent Senator complained that France was being blackmailed by its allies. "From surrender to surrender, from self-denial to self-denial, are we ready to abandon everything in order to avoid isolation?" he demanded...
...familiar faces of postwar France, carefully balanced off as Faure doled out the spoils to the bargainers. To soothe the conservatives, the foreign ministry went to Independent Antoine Pinay, a sturdy pro-European pledged to push through the Paris accords. But as his own ministerial lieutenant Faure appointed Gaullist Gaston Palewski, a leader of the opposition to the accords who has organized the effort to block implementation even after ratification. As a price for their hesitant support, the M.R.P. got four choice Cabinet posts, including Robert Schuman as Minister of Justice and Pierre Pflimlin, a political comer, as Minister...
...worker v. industrialist. France suffers from an older, more stubborn and more pervasive division-the division between clerical and anticlerical. It is a division which makes two parties where there could have been one, which splits the non-Communist left into anticlerical Socialists and pro-Catholic M.R.P., the non-Gaullist right into secularist Radical Socialists and religionist Independents...
...longest Cabinet meeting in the nine years of the Fourth Republic. For 8½ hours Premier Mendés-France listened to the protests of his political colleagues, readvanced his argument, and finally got his way: the appointment of Gaullist Jacques Soustelle, 43, as governor general of Algeria. When they heard the news, opposition Deputies cried "à la soupe!" (i.e., gravy). In his own Radical Party, Mendés had to face severe criticism. Said ex-Premier René Mayer: "This action may gain the Prime Minister votes from some other quarters, but it may well cost him an equal...
...time when many Frenchmen feel that Arab demands in North Africa are getting out of hand, Soustelle's appointment will strengthen Mendès' position in the forthcoming Assembly debate. With the full support of his own party and the votes of Soustelle's Gaullist friends, he should carry the Assembly. Said Mendes: "I am neither optimistic nor pessimistic...We will...