Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition to such political familiars as Guy Mollet, Pierre Pflimlin and Antoine Pinay, Premier Charles de Gaulle's Cabinet includes these interesting new faces...
...diehard colonialists and not one of the men involved in the Algiers insurrection. It consisted instead of parliamentary ministers and nonparty technicians centered around France's three major "democratic" parties. Among them: Socialist Guy Mollet and Catholic Popular Republican Pierre Pflimlin as Ministers of State; Independent Antoine Pinay as Minister of Finance. Those right-wing Algerian French ultras who had gleefully plotted the downfall of Pierre Pilimlin's government were shocked and disheartened by Pflimlin's appearance in the De Gaulle Cabinet. As for those outside France, who feared De Gaulle's well-known propensity...
...other choice is [right-wing ex-Premier] Antoine Pinay. The Deputies don't like him, but they fear him less than De Gaulle. Pinay would demand very broad powers indeed-presumably nearly as broad as De Gaulle himself. You'll remember what Pinay did in the case of Morocco-as soon as the National Assembly took its All Saints' Day vacation in 1955, he gave the Moroccans their independence. In one week Pinay would have a program. Its first aim would be to end the fighting in Algeria...
Holiday Freedom. Only 24 hours after the confidence vote, the Independents were at Gaillard's throat again. "Tell us exactly what you have agreed to on Tunisia, or we will withdraw our ministers," they demanded. Independent Leader Antoine Pinay came flying back to Paris from a meeting of the European Parliamentary Assembly in Strasbourg to quell his cohorts. But the trump card was played by Gaillard himself. Said he: "If any part of my majority leaves my side, I will resign...
...tried first-durable, hardheaded Socialist Guy Mollet, whose government fell on the issue of high taxes only last May after having lasted longer than any other since the war. Mollet offered a grim, emergency program of raised taxes and slashed government expenditures, finally won a tentative promise from Antoine Pinay's rightists to abstain rather than vote against him on his own promise not to push any Socialist programs. Mollet also demanded a new system of voting in the Assembly to stabilize government tenure. His reform would allow the Assembly to bring the government down only by an absolute...