Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fast. Little, deadpan Antoine Pinay, a Premier for ten months back in 1952, is not even the official leader of his own Independents. But he is uncontested No. 1 man of the right side of France's Assembly, accepted as boss by most of the 130 right-wing Deputies of four parties who call themselves "the moderates." Pinay was long known to be skeptical of "going too far too fast" in North Africa. If Pinay deserted, Faure was doomed. And if Faure fell, Pinay was the right-wingers' choice to succeed...
...this government was blamed for "losing North Africa," they stood to lose their seats in next year's elections. The dissident Gaullists caucused and demanded that Minister of Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs Pierre July resign. July refused. Then, the Independents voted for the withdrawal of Foreign Minister Pinay and the Independents' two other Cabinet members...
...Pinay did not desert. He summoned the moderates to a meeting, told them bluntly that he would not accept the premiership if Faure was brought down. To reporters he snapped: "I remain with Edgar. To hell with all the others...
...Pinay had checked the run. Premier Faure strode into the Chamber and told the restless Deputies: "To criticize is not enough. Those who criticize must have another policy." To this challenge, the Deputies had no answer. Not even the Gaullists were recommending a return to all-out repression; not even the Socialists were objecting to the Faure program, only to the delays in carrying it out. With elections so near, nobody wanted either blame or credit for a different policy...
...much of last week, France's reputation abroad and the fate of its government at home rested in the shaky hands of a hesitant old man-Morocco's Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa. All week long, Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay telephoned anxiously from Manhattan, in hopes of favorable news to influence the U.N. Assembly vote on the Algerian situation. From Paris, Premier Edgar Faure telephoned urgently to Morocco's Resident General Boyer de Latour; unless Ben Moulay Arafa had "voluntarily" departed before the National Assembly met this week, the Faure government was doomed...