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When the Faure cabinet fell last February, Pinay trotted off as usual to the Gare de Lyon. He was on the way back from St. Chamond a few days later when a messenger clambered into his compartment at Dijon with President Auriol's invitation to take a fling at forming a government. He had the brashness...
...with no government until the French people vote themselves a new constitution. Between the Communists and Gaullists (both sworn enemies of the Fourth Republic) sit the Socialists and 330 Deputies of the center and conservative parties, which range from the moderate leftist Catholic M.R.P. to the 45 Deputies of Pinay's own Independent Republicans to the horny-handed shellbacks of the Peasant Party. Under a constitution which breeds too many parties and entrusts all power to the Assembly, this was the mishmash which French voters sent to Paris shortly after the war, and. with few shifts, returned...
Weekend Reflection. Antoine Pinay walked into this domain of canny tacticians and dialectical dancing masters with a misleading double-gait. In the eyes of the public, he was no politician, but to the Assembly he proved to be as wily a one as had come along since the war. He put his proposals to the country as fast as he put them to the Assembly, then calmly told the Deputies: here it is; approve it, or give the responsibility to someone else. The reaction from back home suddenly sounded louder & clearer than the Parisian sidewalk café arguments so dear...
...Pinay capitalized on the rule that a demand for votes of confidence must be followed by a 24-hour intermission. He usually asked for votes on Friday, so the votes would generally fall on Tuesdays, when the Deputies would have had a weekend to learn that the folks back home liked Pinay's proposals. He won vote after vote, ten of them...
...Missing Element. After the first enthusiasm of "the Pinay Experiment" wore off, his critics began to say that his remedy was essentially a set of short-term fiscal manipulations that soothed the skin but did not reach to the disease...