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...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...
Three-Way Divide. Less noisily, Faure and supporters made plans of their own. Working agreements were concluded for alliances among Faure's right-wing Radicals, Robert Schuman's Popular Republicans, and Antoine Pinay's conservative Independents. With the main battle lines drawn, political observers guessed that Faure-Pinay rightists would emerge as the biggest winners with about 250 seats, Mendes and his allies with perhaps 150; the Communists were expected to pick up 20 seats or so for a total of 120. Thus the probability was a new Assembly divided into three major blocs, with no clear...
...vote came on Faure's much-battered proposal to hold elections six months early. In his nine months, Faure had kept the economy stable and thriving, got the Paris Accords through the Senate, and provided the West with a sturdy friend in the person of Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay. But Faure had lost much of his right in his concessions to Morocco, most of the left in his hesitations in making the concessions. The Communists, who had saved him twice, had now changed their minds. His only sure supporters were Pinay's conservative Independents and the Catholic M.R.P...
Last week, skillfully urged by India's V. K. Krishna Menon, the Arab-Asian bloc beat a delicate retreat. Without a dissenting voice, the General Assembly agreed to drop the Algerian case from the agenda. In Paris, France's Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay hailed "a victory for reason," achieved without any pressure by the French themselves, and ordered his delegates to return posthaste to their seats...
Returning from Geneva, Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay observed that the next step was for the foreign ministers to report to their chiefs of government -"at least those lucky enough to have one," he added wryly. At week's end Pinay and France still had Edgar Faure as chief of government. But he was a Premier kept in office by Communist votes, at odds with his Cabinet, rebuffed by his Assembly...