Word: laniel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juggler. But even Faure almost failed before he succeeded. His first move was to consult his old friend Mendès-France. Mendès had kept Faure on as Finance Minister after the fall of the Laniel "richman's government," until Mendès could turn his personal attention to reform of the creaking French economy. More than any man, Faure is credited with France's relative prosperity of the past year and a half. But even before Mendès' fall, there had been friction between Mendès and his more conservative Finance Minister...
...over to the National Assembly to try to save the day, he arrived just in time to hear a right-wing Deputy explaining that former Foreign Minister Georges Bidault had been all set to clear up the whole Indo-China mess when Mendès interfered and toppled the Laniel Cabinet. "That sounds like a beautiful serialized novel," Mendès cracked, but the Assembly was not amused. It voted him down 301 to 291, the first major parliamentary defeat that he has suffered...
...rebuttal, Mitterrand called upon Georges Bidault to testify that Mitterrand had left the Laniel government because of policy differences. Bidault, still bitter from the defeat of EDC, agreed that Mitterrand was right, added stonily, "I refuse you all other testimonials...
...confusion, Turpin and Labrusse renounced their confessions. "I never gave Baranés any documents," said Labrusse. He said he had only "chatted" with Baranés as he would with any newspaperman. Turpin said he had only been "imprudent," but he had hoped his "imprudences" would reach Laniel opponents, who were trying to stop the Indo-Chinese war-someone, for example, like Mendès-France...
...that was the plan, it had misfired. The discovery that the first leak had occurred during Laniel's government diverted the onus from Mendes personally, and the arrest of Turpin and Labrusse scotched the innuendoes that Mitterrand was willing to be overtolerant to Communist infiltration of the government...