Word: mitterrand
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...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...
Alerted to the danger, Mendès-France ordered his young, ambitious Interior Minister, François Mitterrand, to "turn the house upside down" and find the leak. But only three days after the Sept. 10 meeting, Dides told his Cabinet friend, Minister for Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs Christian Fouchet, that he had a complete verbatim transcript of the meeting. A few days later, Dides was arrested, and the transcribed minutes were found in his briefcase...
...passed without an arrest, press and politicians of the right wing cried for action and implied that Mendès-France and his ministers were powerless or afraid to act. If the Dides affaire was not to blossom into a full-scale threat to the regime's existence, Mitterrand and his police needed more-facts and arrests. One morning last week, the police rocked the country with two arrests. Jailed as the men who leaked from the Defense Committee were René Turpin, 42, and Roger Labrusse, 40, both ardent leftists and both high-ranking officers on the staff...