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When the present French Assembly expires, all France-and most of the rest of the world, too-will find it easy to contain its grief. In 4½ years, the Assembly has overthrown six governments, spent one week out of every five bogged down in a Cabinet crisis, tabled more than 13,000 bills while approving less than 1,000. Last week the Deputies were maneuvered into voting themselves out of office six months before their time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Election in December | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...chastened mood. Stubby little Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay spent hours in corridors and offices whipping his moderates and rightists into line. If they were counting on him to replace Faure, he told them, they were wrong. He would flatly refuse to accept the premiership. "If the government is overthrown," he said, "it will mean rejection of the European statute for the Saar, revival of German nationalism, undermining of the Atlantic alliance, and France's inability to play any influential role at the four-power talks in Geneva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Chastened Men | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

Among the gauds and gods of sinful Babylon, the young and earnest Isaiah is a prophet without honor or glamour. Beaten and spit upon, the visionary nonetheless convinces a hard core of the faithful that Babylon will be overthrown and the Jews restored to their ancient homeland. At novel's end, the first of the Jews are on the homeward march. Occasionally moving in his hours of trial, Asch's man of God often seems less the eloquent, God-intoxicated psalm-singer of the great Biblical text ("Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion . . .") than a bearded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 31, 1955 | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

...they left in, Faure was clearly doomed. But one thought gave pause. With nearly general approval in France, Faure had ordered France's delegation out of the U.N. Assembly on the ground that Algeria is an internal problem that France will settle internally. If Faure were to be overthrown, would it not be a tacit confession that France was incapable of devising any policy at all for Algeria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Graveyard Smell | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

...Shortly after 9 o'clock in the evening, Fanfani told Scelba formally that "with deep regret" the executive committee had decided not to support him. Next morning, smiling determinedly, Mario Scelba submitted his resignation to President Gronchi. His chief regret, said Scelba mildly, was that he had been overthrown not by parliamentary votes but by party maneuvering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Fall of Scelba | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

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