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...years before he came to power, Mendès-France gathered around himself a group of technicians and businessmen to examine ways and means by which France might be able to get along without relying on American subsidies. Not one of the old governments ever asked its own experts to undertake the same kind of study...
Breaking the Crust. The essential aim of the Mendès-France revolution is to break the crust which weighs upon the French economy and hinders its free development. This crust is made up of layers of protections, subsidies and financial subterfuges. Today, the French economic machine is geared to the production rhythm of its weakest components. The state has nearly become an agency to stifle competition...
Everybody expected Mendès-France to come out with a system of state planning. He did the opposite. He decided to plunge French economy into international competition as quickly as possible by reducing customs tariffs and opening the frontiers. Thus he will gradually lift a great part of the protective decrees. Mendès-France will issue no ukases; it is the old order of free competition which must clean house...
...Regime. Formidable resistance rises against Mendès-France. He has the support of the majority of the workers and of big business. Against him stands the greater majority of small and medium-sized industrial, commercial and agricultural enterprises, all those who were able to survive only in the incubator of protection. They don't realize that without radical treatment, most of them are condemned to death...
...Mendès-France refuses to make promises to the allies that are incapable of being kept. He is a less easy man to handle than his predecessors. Foreign diplomats who were loth to see their postwar arrangements crumble were only too eager to listen to Mendès-France's internal enemies. Washington's attitude suggests that American diplomacy may have joined the ranks of those who seek Mendès-France's downfall...