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...Abstainer. In his speech Edgar Faure did not mention Mendès-the first time on record a Premier-designate had violated the tradition of praise for his predecessor. Mendès did not once join in the applause and he pointedly abstained on the vote. Later, when Mendès formally turned over the Premier's office to Faure, Mendès refused to be photographed in the traditional smiling handshake, ducked out of a side door, where he was cheered by 200 waiting supporters. Nonetheless, Edgar Faure was given a fair chance to survive a while...
...government, a man whom the party leaders themselves finally agreed was the best hope. "He is the exact middle," explained Elder Statesman Paul Reynaud. Shrewdly, the Assembly's old cuties had calculated that Faure was young enough, dynamic enough, and leftist enough to cut the ground from under Mendès with the voters. "His dialogue is left, his politics right. This is a very useful arrangement," said one supporter...
...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...
Cynics call Faure "the juggler," and the Cabinet he presented was a masterpiece. Gone were the bright young men of Mendès' Cabinet. Replacing them were many of the old 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...
Asking to be confirmed in office, Faure talked to patches of empty seats and small applause. Abroad, Faure's policy was Mendès' policy-quick ratification of the Paris accords for German rearmament, but a new effort immediately thereafter for talks with Russia. Domestically, he avoided Mendès' "psychological shock," promised a conservative program of increasing production, cutting prices, and raising wages slightly. On what one newspaper called "a wave of lassitude," the Assembly approved by a resounding 369 to 210, with only the Communists and Socialists opposed...