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That Special Poison. As the Deputies reassembled to decide Faure's fate, General Adolphe Aumeran, spokesman for Algeria's bitterest diehards, said cavernously: "The fall of the Cabinet would only have happy consequences." But most Deputies were in a chastened mood. Stubby little Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay spent hours in corridors and offices whipping his moderates and rightists into line. If they were counting on him to replace Faure, he told them, they were wrong. He would flatly refuse to accept the premiership. "If the government is overthrown," he said, "it will mean rejection of the European statute...
...Fast. Little, deadpan Antoine Pinay, a Premier for ten months back in 1952, is not even the official leader of his own Independents. But he is uncontested No. 1 man of the right side of France's Assembly, accepted as boss by most of the 130 right-wing Deputies of four parties who call themselves "the moderates." Pinay was long known to be skeptical of "going too far too fast" in North Africa. If Pinay deserted, Faure was doomed. And if Faure fell, Pinay was the right-wingers' choice to succeed...
...this government was blamed for "losing North Africa," they stood to lose their seats in next year's elections. The dissident Gaullists caucused and demanded that Minister of Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs Pierre July resign. July refused. Then, the Independents voted for the withdrawal of Foreign Minister Pinay and the Independents' two other Cabinet members...
...Pinay did not desert. He summoned the moderates to a meeting, told them bluntly that he would not accept the premiership if Faure was brought down. To reporters he snapped: "I remain with Edgar. To hell with all the others...
...Pinay had checked the run. Premier Faure strode into the Chamber and told the restless Deputies: "To criticize is not enough. Those who criticize must have another policy." To this challenge, the Deputies had no answer. Not even the Gaullists were recommending a return to all-out repression; not even the Socialists were objecting to the Faure program, only to the delays in carrying it out. With elections so near, nobody wanted either blame or credit for a different policy...