Word: michelet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the government said it had seized La Gangrène "to stress the infamous and lying nature of this libelous publication," inside the Cabinet angry protests against its seizure were made by André Malraux and Minister of Justice Edmond Michelet, a liberal Catholic who was once an inmate of a Nazi concentration camp...
...severe problem posed by La Gangrène is that, although De Gaulle has succeeded in curbing army excesses in Algeria, French police methods at home in Metropolitan France are still a law unto themselves. In L'Express, Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Francois Mauriac wrote: "De Gaulle, Debré, Michelet are horrified by the idea of torture, as were the Socialists, Radicals and M.R.P.s of the Fourth Republic. But governments pass. The police remain, and governments all have this in common: they cannot do without the police and are scared of displeasing them...
Last week Minister of Justice Edmond Michelet tried to quiet the outcry. "We had an ancient judicial system," he said soothingly. "It has been replaced by a system more modern and liberal." The French press was not so sure...
...subsidies to nationalized industries cigarettes, coal, electricity and train tickets would be more expensive. For all veterans, except those over 65 or with more than 50% disability, there would be no more pensions. ("This is to give new value to the beautiful name of veteran," enthused Veterans Minister Edmond Michelet.) For farmers there would be no more subsidies for the planting of olive trees, and there would be higher taxes on tractor fuel and tools...
First, as a kind of warmup, on rabble-rousers' charges that the U.S. was plotting to turn Algeria over to the rebel F.L.N.,* crowds broke down the doors of the USIA offices on Rue Michelet and scattered books and periodicals in the street. Then, their ranks grown to 30,000, they jammed the main square for a ceremonial wreath-laying at the war memorial. General Raoul Salan, once commander in Indo-China and now commander in chief of the 500,000 French troops in Algeria, and tall, leathery General Jacques Massu, the paratroop commander, drove...