Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...results were startling. With one exception, every major party that actually increased its share of the popular vote last week lost seats; and the one major party that dropped in percentage of popular votes gained seats. Example: ex-Premier Pinay's right-wing Independents and Peasants gained 2%, but lost 42 seats. The Communists lost nearly 1%, but won 53 new seats, representing almost exactly the seats they lost in 1951 when the center alliances scooped up all Assembly seats in any Department where they achieved a bare majority...
Sullen Suitors. Out of the wreckage, the rightist forces of Faure and Pinay, from their position of slight numerical superiority, made the first gesture towards putting things back together again. Between the two center groups, said Faure, "there is no real opposition on the big problems." His proposition: "a temporary union" of left-and right-wing moderates. The right-wingers let it be known that Mendès was anathema to them, but hinted that they might accept a Socialist like Mollet or Christian Pineau for Premier...
...problem at one stroke." Lacking a magic wand, politicians groped for a magic word. To lameduck Premier Edgar Faure, that word was integration, which lies somewhere between assimilation, now abandoned as an impractical dream, and federation, which implies wholesale remodeling of the French Union. To Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay, federalism was the magic word: it would bring "solidarity within diversity...
...right flank rode Edgar Faure, the slick-as-onionskin politician who precipitated the snap elections, and Antoine Pinay, the slow and steady little tanner from St.Chamond. They led a relatively smooth-working alliance of independents, farmers, other conservatives and Catholic M.R.P.s...
...maintained that the new Soviet activity represents merely "economic expansion" of the kind Western nations practiced a century and less ago. The recent Soviet-bloc arms deals with Egypt, added Mendès, were provoked by "the unlucky Baghdad pact, which constituted for the West a blunder ..." Antoine Pinay's signature on the NATO communique...