Word: moche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some time after 3 a.m., Bidault presented his government to President of the Republic Vincent Auriol. To tired, ailing M. Auriol, most of the faces were familiar. Socialist Jules Moch, who had tried unsuccessfully to form the new government, was again the Minister of Interior. The M.R.P.'s able, courageous Robert Schuman, an ex-Premier himself, had been retained as Foreign Minister. The Radicals' Henri Queuille, Premier of the previous government, was kept on as Vice Premier. The Peasant Party's Maurice Petsche remained as Minister of Finance. In all, ten members of the Queuille government...
After the resignation (TIME, Oct. 17) of the Radicals' Henri Queuille (because of Socialist contumacy), President of the Republic Vincent Auriol had called on Socialist Jules Moch, a hard-hitting Minister of Interior in the Queuille regime, to see what he could do. By the narrowest margin in French parliamentary history, Moch had been approved by the Assembly, but he could not form a cabinet. It seemed that neither of the other two parties in the center coalition, the Radicals and Popular Republicans, wanted a Socialist premier. Then long-suffering M. Auriol called on the Radicals...
Middle-of-the-roader Mayer won a fairly comfortable Assembly ratification, but he also was unable to form a cabinet, largely because the Socialists resented the frustration of M. Moch. M. Auriol next wistfully beckoned to an eminent Popular Republican, Georges Bidault, first Foreign Minister of the Fourth Republic. M. Bidault would undoubtedly exert himself to the utmost, for of the three center parties the Popular Republicans have the sharpest fear of parliamentary dissolution and new elections (the Popular Republicans anticipate wholesale defections to the Gaullists). By a majority vote the deputies could bring about dissolution at any time...
This coalition had appeared to be in danger ever since the resignation of Premier Henri Queuille on October 5: the efforts successively of Jules Moch, Socialist, and Rene Mayer, Radical Socialist, to form acceptable governments had failed...
President of the Republic Vincent Auriol, tired and ill, wearily conferred with party leaders, then asked Socialist Minister of the Interior Jules Moch to examine his prospects for forming a cabinet. After the Socialists had had their try, M. Auriol would be free to call on anyone he thought could set up and run a working coalition. He might even call, again, on Henri Queuille...