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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...
...Finance at 23. He escaped from Vichy France to North Africa during the war, served as Finance Minister under De Gaulle. After serving as Ambassador to Egypt and representative to NATO, he became Ambassador to the U.S. in 1955-56, but nearly lost his job when he angered Antoine Pinay by a U.S. radio interview. Foreign Minister Pinay had led a French walkout from the U. N. over Algeria, but Ambassador Couve de Murville assured his radio listeners that France would return to the U. N. "as soon as possible." Currently French Ambassador to West Germany, he was a surprise...
...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...