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...half hours after the polls closed in Sunday's general election in Greece, Field Marshal Alexander Papagos was able to claim a landslide victory for his year-old, Gaullist-like Greek Rally Party. With 49% of the popular vote, the party will have 241 seats in the 300-member Parliament. It was the second greatest political victory in modern Greek history, matched only by the Liberal sweep in 1928. The Communists got 10% of the vote, but won not a single seat in Parliament...
...strong government needs the support of army or palace, or both. Today they say the army, the palace and the U.S. Embassy. Last year's general election followed earlier outspoken criticism of the government by the U.S. Embassy. The army's famed Marshal Alexander Papagos, leading a Gaullist-type party called the Greek Rally, won the most seats (114). But the palace's King Paul I had quarreled with him, and called instead upon Progressives and Liberals (131 seats all told) to form a coalition government...
...finger at his country's greatest weakness: too many gabby political parties, all too small. Last week De Gaulle's own party, the powerful Rally of the French People (R.P.F.), added one more splinter group to the eleven squabbling parties in the French National Assembly. Thirty Gaullist Deputies and five Senators who bolted R.P.F. in protest against its "negative and sterile attitude" towards Premier Antoine Pinay (TIME, July 14) formed something called the Independent Group for Republican and Social Action. Edmond Barrachin, the fast-talking Parisian columnist who led the revolt, was elected president. De Gaulle thereupon serenely...
Pinay's growing reputation as a man of decision emphasized clearly De Gaulle's growing weakness. In March, 27 Gaullist deputies bolted their party to vote Right-Winger Pinay in as Premier. Last week, on the eve of a vital confidence vote in the Assembly, 47 Gaullist deputies (out of 118) told General de Gaulle that they would no longer blindly oppose Pinay, but would vote according to their own political consciences. This decision may spell the end of General de Gaulle's hope of being elected to power in France...
This did not mean that France was back on its feet, or that Pinay had succeeded. But he had already passed one political miracle: proving that the hitherto solid Gaullist bloc could be split, and that a government could be formed without kowtowing to the Socialists (TIME, March 17). Now he was gambling, double or quits, on a return of confidence. If tax dodgers went on dodging, if France's hidden capital stayed in hiding, if stores raised prices and labor pushed up wages, the defense of the franc would collapse. Pinay had done his best; the rest...