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...Silence is not an effective instrument of democracy." Speaking for the French party, anti-Gaullist Albert Gazier. in a rare display of political candor, dismissed all this earnest talk as irrelevant. Don't rock our boat. French Socialists pleaded; there are advantages in having Socialists on the inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Beautiful Road | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

Weekend Whack. No minister wanted to cut his own department much. Complained Labor Minister Albert Gazier, a Socialist: "I don't want to be known as Minister of Unemployment." Snapped Gaillard: "And I don't want to be remembered as Minister of Bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Austerity in August | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

France, long one of the most enlightened nations in the world, is backward to the point of primitivism when it comes to putting a roof over people's heads. A fort night ago Socialist Deputy Albert Gazier, member of the Committee for Economic Affairs, submitted a shocking report to the French National Assembly: "The average age of buildings in Paris is 83 years. One-quarter of all apartments have no running water. The number of Parisians who are forced to live in single hotel rooms is estimated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Sheltering Sky | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...Gazier blamed the sorry situation on lack of initiative, excessive costs and old-fashioned building methods. Being a Socialist, he did not add another of France's basic difficulties - bureaucracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Sheltering Sky | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...Olde Housing. Deputy Gazier told only half of a sad story that helps explain France's divisions, frustrations and sullen hatred. More than 2,000,000 French families live in houses built before the Battle of Waterloo: ¶ 175,000 families live in houses built under the reign of Francis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Sheltering Sky | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

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