Word: mitterrand
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...advisers had been responsible for leaking secret government information to the Communists before he became Premier. Legendre recalled that in August last year ex-President Auriol had summoned the Defense Committee, saying: "There is a traitor among us." Pointing at Mendès' Interior Minister, Francois Mitterrand, Legendre shouted: "Three weeks later you resigned from the Cabinet." Pale with anger, Mendès leapt to his feet, crying: "What are you insinuating...
...rebuttal, Mitterrand called upon Georges Bidault to testify that Mitterrand had left the Laniel government because of policy differences. Bidault, still bitter from the defeat of EDC, agreed that Mitterrand was right, added stonily, "I refuse you all other testimonials...
...French say they will not negotiate the Algerian question-that revolt on the soil of Algeria is treason. "The only negotiation," said Interior Minister Francois Mitterrand, "is war." The Algerian nationalists have an answer: "La valise ou le cercueil"-meaning, if you don't take a traveling bag, you will get a coffin...
...that Mendès incurred the personal enmity of some of the Radical Socialist old guard when he took the Interior Ministry, which they had long considered their own special bailiwick, away from Radical Socialist Léon Martinaud-Déplat and gave it to young, energetic Francois Mitterrand of the moderate, splinter-sized Democratic and Socialist Resistance Union. The bitterness was quickly evident. Though Martinaud-Déplat had learned of the first leak before Mendès took office, he neglected to tell his successor Mitterrand about it. Bitterness increased as Mitterrand began cleaning out Martinaud...
...that was the plan, it had misfired. The discovery that the first leak had occurred during Laniel's government diverted the onus from Mendes personally, and the arrest of Turpin and Labrusse scotched the innuendoes that Mitterrand was willing to be overtolerant to Communist infiltration of the government...