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...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...
...amidst the pollution, France still had no government. Conservative Antoine Pinay, the third man to try to end the present crisis, carried his candidacy to the National Assembly, where he warned of "financial disaster," demanded power to dissolve the Assembly and call for new elections if he should lose a vote within the next year. France's Deputies do not like to be threatened with elections; they slapped down Pinay...
...seek power? No, hang it! I may be your President, but I am not the sweeper in this house." Thus snapped Antoine Pinay, when members of his Independent Party pressured him to take on the job of trying to form a new government. Two other Premiers had already tried and failed: Socialist Guy Mollet, representing the biggest bloc (100 seats) among the parties who more or less govern France, and Rene Pleven, whose left-center U.D.S.R. is the smallest (7 seats...
Although the late government of Premier Maurice Bourges-Maunoury had collapsed over Algeria, the squabbling now turned on how to solve the economic crisis: by year's end France may have no money to pay for imports. After a talk with President Rene Coty, Pinay declared: "In view of the gravity of the situation explained to me by the President, I do not think I have the right to refuse." In 1952 Conservative Antoine Pinay had made himself a hero by "saving the franc." But last week his proposals to hold the line on taxes, slash expenditures and economize...
...23rd time since World War II, French politicians sweated through the ceremonial dance of trying to form a government. President René Coty first offered the premiership to René Pleven, then to Antoine Pinay. Both refused. Pleven had been Defense Minister during Dienbienphu, feared ugly comparisons with the Algerian war. Parliamentary arithmetic ruled out any candidate without Socialist support, something Right-Winger Pinay could not get. Finally, the President summoned tall, white-haired Pierre Pflimlin, 50, to his oak-paneled office at the Elysee Palace for a two-hour talk, then walked him to the threshold and said...