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...Mendès-France's own party, the large (75 Deputies), lumpy, "moderate" Radical Socialist Party often seems less a party than an agglomeration of individualists, whose main bonds are anticlericalism, wine and good eating. The Radicals include able Premier Edgar Faure, who fears a Mendes comeback. They include such other ex-Premiers as slothlike Henri Queuille, the father of immobilisme; Edouard Daladier, the appeaser of Munich; 82-year-old Edouard Herriot, who fought German rearmament tooth and claw. And they include two diehard conservatives, Léon Martinaud-Déplat and René Mayer, who engineered Mend...
...Pierre Mendès-France was back in the news, tanned, rested, fit and ready for a fight. He had learned a hard lesson in his fall from power last February. It was not enough to have public favor; he also needed a secure political base in the French Assembly, and he knew that that called for a fight...
...Pierre Mendès-France, planning his comeback, asked for an extraordinary party congress to decide the party's pos ture before the 1956 general elections. Implicit purpose: to oust Léon Martinaud-Déplat as the party's administrative boss. Martinaud-Déplat yielded to the demand but spitefully made the bleakest arrangements possible: he scheduled a daytime congress last week in Paris' dreary, colonnaded Salle Wagram, knowing that a wrestling match was due to begin at 6:30. "If Mendès wants to fight," said Martinaud-Déplat sourly...
...Rouge. The congress itself soon fell to wrestling. Mendès-France's adherents in the gallery - young students and girls with ponytail hairdos, as well as portly elders - were equipped with police whistles. Mendès quickly won his first victory when the executive committee voted, 96 to 87, to replace Martinaud-Déplat by a seven-man administrative committee. Back from lunch came the delegates, full of vim and vin rouge, for the rest of the battle. When Mendès took the rostrum, there was a crashing ovation. A fist fight broke...
...Pierre Mendès-France nearly had it in his hand. Before he could grasp it, he was thrown out of office. Last week Mendès-France's successor. Premier Edgar Faure. closed his fingers on it: a settlement between France and Tunisia which, if carried out by men of good will, may bring an end to bloodshed and revolt in Tunisia, and diminish the despair and desperation in neighboring Morocco and Algeria...