Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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sturdily supported Pinay's 1952 government until he tried to take a sliver off family allowances, for which the party, as Catholic spokesman, feels itself a special champion. Thus, a government falls because of the accumulation of differences -not with its enemies-but with its friends...
...weeks after the fall of Pierre Mendès-France, France was still without a government. President Coty had gone to the right and gone to the left; three men (Antoine Pinay, Pierre Pflimlin and Christian Pineau) had failed to satisfy the Assembly; this week a fourth, Edgar Faure (Mendès-France's Finance Minister), was trying, and once again the air was filled with the bickering, squabbling and jockeying that characterizes the National Assembly of the Fourth Republic...
...Most talked about: Rightist Antoine Pinay, who was Premier almost ten months...
Former Premier Antoine Pinay declared that he, too, would abstain. So did Reynaud. Suddenly, the move to take refuge on the sidelines of abstention gained momentum. "Elections are only 18 months off," explained one observer. "If, by then, rearming Germany still worries Frenchmen, the abstainers can say, 'Don't blame us; we didn't vote for it.' If the Germans behave, the abstainers can contend, 'After all, we didn't stand in the way of the treaties.' " Socialists, pledged to vote for rearmament, began to panic...
...Mendes-France goes down, hopes for a vigorous France able to balance a resurgent Germany may sink with him. For victory will not go to the moderate Right--a long succession of do-nothing premiers like Pinay and Laniel have thoroughly discredited this segment. And since the French people also have little faith in the militant Gaullist Right, they would probably vote for a coalition of groups farther left than Mendes-France. Such a Popular Front would bring with it a defeatist, pacifist policy that would undo much of what has already been accomplished towards strengthening the West. Dulles' trip...