Word: mending
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...polls-a healthy 82% of the eligible turned out-and, in an Assembly of 626 seats (30 of them to be decided later in Algeria), had dissipated the power to govern among four main blocs, roughly as follows: ¶ Communists: 150. ¶ Left-of-center coalition (Pierre Mendès-France and Socialists): 160. ¶ Right-of-center coalition (Premier Edgar Faure, Roman Catholic M.R.P., Independents): 200. ¶ Poujadists...
...slight numerical superiority, made the first gesture towards putting things back together again. Between the two center groups, said Faure, "there is no real opposition on the big problems." His proposition: "a temporary union" of left-and right-wing moderates. The right-wingers let it be known that Mendès was anathema to them, but hinted that they might accept a Socialist like Mollet or Christian Pineau for Premier...
...hard-bargaining Mendès-France and his Socialist ally Mollet turned down Faure's offer, insisted on a chance to form a government of their own. "We have decided not to let ourselves be divided," explained Mollet...
...Mendès argued, "enables us to judge the profound error of French foreign policy...
...Mendès, a man of the left, says frequently that he does not want Communist support, and would not accept it. But his message in L'Express was a reminder of how this cunning politician, with his ambition to give France a domestic New Deal, has also shown a cool willingness to reduce, even shuck off, France's foreign responsibilities, and to cut her down to a small power with neutralist tendencies. He seemed to be suggesting to the Communist voters that he too has reservations about a foreign policy they hate, and that...