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...Minister only a few hours, Edgar Faure was swimming in splendor at the first diplomatic reception of the year one evening last week. Then a journalist approached and drew his attention to a paragraph in L'Express, the news weekly edited by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 31, a Mendés-France adviser who has never liked Faure. In a high moralistic tone, the paragraph hinted that just before quitting the Finance Ministry, Faure had proposed the tax on racehorse sales in favor of wealthy horse owners. Concluded L'Express: "The wall between politics and money...
...Mendés advisers worked out a calming communiqué which stated that L'Express had "totally deformed the facts," but Mendes forbade its issuance. While Mendés' harried advisers went back to work, the seconds got together across the street from Maxim's to discuss weapons. At last the advisers produced a new version, criticizing L'Express' "fallacious account," and declaring that the Premier "deplored that inadmissible insinuations be leveled at the professional conscience" of someone who enjoyed the Premier's entire confidence. Faure was mollified, Servan-Schreiber was relieved that...
Though his opponents are busy discussing among themselves who will be France's next Premier,* Pierre Mendès-France last week blithely shook up his Cabinet for the fifth time and announced crisply: "Now the real work begins." By this he meant applying himself to his favorite subject, economics, and his declared intention to unravel France's knotted economy...
...that has gone before (Geneva, EDC, the Paris accords), Mendès-France, for all his spectacular performance, has regarded himself as merely clearing the decks. Last week the Premier stepped down as his own Foreign Minister and persuaded his able Minister of Finance, Edgar Faure, to move over to the Quai d'Orsay. Faure, who was Premier once himself (for 40 days in 1952) and would like to be again, is a lawyer and econo mist, a moderately successful writer of mystery stories (under the pseudonym Edgar Sanday), and a backer of the late EDC. His elevation...
...vote showed, at any rate, that a majority exists to bring down Mendès the minute a convenient issue arises. Some of Mendès' young supporters would just as soon see him fall shortly, so that out of office he can begin a new grouping of the left, which would return him to power with a stronger mandate. Mendès himself is not in such a hurry to quit office. "As long as I continue to do useful work," he says, "I'll not give...