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...Mendès had hoped to win tentative Assembly approval without staking his premiership on the outcome, but the Assembly did not let him. Shortly before 1 a.m. on the second day of debate, the Premier, his voice thick with disgust, announced: "I must pose the question of confidence." That meant that the vote would be delayed until this week and if the Mendès government is beaten, the Cabinet would have to resign...
...Mendès-France was one Frenchman, at least, who seemed to realize that France's time for putting off things was near an end. "German rearmament has already been decided upon," he warned. "The only question is whether it will be with us or in spite...
...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...
Fingerprints. Out of the mixture of lies, facts and opinion, supporters of Mendès-France felt last week that they were arriving at a partial explanation. If they were right, the answer went to the heart of France's political sickness. Their theory: Dides, under the direction of disgruntled right-wingers of Mendès' own Radical Socialist Party, had deliberately used the defense leaks to try to discredit Mendès and bring the downfall of his Minister of the Interior, François Mitterrand...
...proof, the Mendès men pointed to evidence heavily marked with Radical Socialist fingerprints. It was no secret that Mendès incurred the personal enmity of some of the Radical Socialist old guard when he took the Interior Ministry, which they had long considered their own special bailiwick, away from Radical Socialist Léon Martinaud-Déplat and gave it to young, energetic Francois Mitterrand of the moderate, splinter-sized Democratic and Socialist Resistance Union. The bitterness was quickly evident. Though Martinaud-Déplat had learned of the first leak before Mendès took...