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...suburbs and distant cities-defying floods, government obstruction and police discouragement. Three of Paris' largest auditoriums were forbidden to them. Just outside the city limits, in two huge halls, 100,000 Poujadistes cheered and shouted approval as their young leader, self-styled "Robin Hood of taxpayers," insulted Premier Mendés-France, his Cabinet and his programs. " We want our share of the cake, too," shouted Poujade. "From tomorrow on, we don't pay any taxes until they show us a fiscal reform worth its salt. Agreed?" Bellowed the Poujadistes: "Agreed!" Poujade's ideas for reform...
...Mendés-France's government retorted with statistics showing that four out of five of France's 1,540,000 artisans and small businessmen (who are famed for keeping two sets of records, one to run their businesses by, the other to show the tax collector) declared an average net profit of only $89 a month in 1952, whereas even office employees received an average $104 a month. "A presumption of fraud weighs heavily on tradesmen and artisans," said the government. But in southern and southwestern France, unabashed Poujade vigilantes went right on chasing tax collectors down...
...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...
...enduring enmity of French Reds. But he is also no friend of the U.S.: during his anthropological work he became convinced that south of the Rio Grande the U.S. is a nasty old imperialist. His brilliant, biting speeches against German rearmament helped kill EDC, and he has attacked Mendès' own Paris Accords...
...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...