Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's adversaries fear that direct presidential elections may swallow up most of France's dozen political parties, each of which is already riven by factionalism. The moderate right knows it can never assemble enough voters eventually to elect its favorite, Antoine Pinay, as De Gaulle's successor. The Roman Catholic M.R.P. is torn between its conservative clerical and young progressive wings, and the clericals dread the prospect of a popularly elected President's reopening the issue of state aid to church schools, which for more than 100 years split French politics and villages down...
...whittling away parliamentary prerogatives, were now in eager coalition. They were attacking the stablest government that France has had in this century, having themselves provided very nearly the worst; many of De Gaulle's opponents had served as revolving-door Premiers in the disastrous Fourth Republic-Antoine Pinay for nine months, Pierre Mendes-France for eight months, Pierre Pflimlin for 17 days...
...disciples have never seen "Porteur", as they call him, or read his vignettes, but they perpetually invoke his name with unfathomable reverence. The plot, which is obviously enormously complicated, forms about Martin's movements between Tatania's aristocratic pretensions and Valerie's fondness for the values of former Premier Pinay; his role in the Lormier-Hermelin dispute; his attempts to find the scrawling autobiographer and the sources of his brother...
...Algerian question both menaces and ensures the stability of De Gaulle's regime. Such old pols as Antoine Pinay, Guy Mollet and ex-President Vincent Auriol are eager to take over control of the state-but not until the Algerian time bomb has either exploded under De Gaulle or been defused...
...Kennedy endorses the project and persuaded Lodge to take the post; U.S. representatives on the institute's board of governors include U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and former Secretary of State Christian Herter. Among distinguished European members are its chairman, Paul van Zeeland, a former Belgian Prime Minister; Antoine Pinay, a former French Prime Minister; and Paul-Henri Spaak, former NATO Secretary-General. On an initial budget of $350.000, contributed mainly by in dividuals, foundations, industry and trade unions, the institute will carry out research, sponsor conferences, act as an information clearinghouse. Among the institute's assignments: to find...