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...Gaulle's own party, the powerful Rally of the French People (R.P.F.), added one more splinter group to the eleven squabbling parties in the French National Assembly. Thirty Gaullist Deputies and five Senators who bolted R.P.F. in protest against its "negative and sterile attitude" towards Premier Antoine Pinay (TIME, July 14) formed something called the Independent Group for Republican and Social Action. Edmond Barrachin, the fast-talking Parisian columnist who led the revolt, was elected president. De Gaulle thereupon serenely announced that the defectors had not quit; they had been fired for refusing to obey orders...
...that the weakling Fourth Republic has learned to live with it. But, as events turned, it was the waiting R.P.F., the biggest single voting bloc in the Assembly, that showed the first signs of crumbling. Last March, 27 of its 118 Deputies flouted party discipline to confirm commonsensible Antoine Pinay as Premier (TIME, March 17). A month later, in another test of strength, 34 Gaullists voted for Pinay's "save-the-franc" budget, and another 77 Gaullists, by abstaining on the vote, helped keep Pinay's right-of-center government in office. Last week, at its annual convention...
Deputy Edmond Barrachin, a fast-talking and well-to-do Parisian columnist, was up on his feet in a flash. Supporting Pinay, he cried, was "not a question of right or left. It was a question of saving the franc when the state had only 4 billion francs [$11.5 million] in its coffers." What riled Barrachin most was that the R.P.F.'s policy of wantonly toppling cabinet after cabinet in an effort to provoke their national catastrophe often led to diabolical alliances of Gaullists and Communists. Barrachin's colleague, Deputy Andre Bardon, had already resigned from R.P.F...
...this point 22 rebels, all members of the Assembly, including Barrachin and General Pierre Billotte, shoved their way out of the convention and across the street to a bistro. There they announced that they were quitting the R.P.F. for good. How many Gaullists would follow and vote with Pinay remained to be seen this week. Barrachin claimed 30 Deputies and 20 Senators; loyal Gaullists conceded him at least 30. With the Gaullists thus split, Premier Pinay's cabinet seemed assured a longer lease of life...
...comrades obliged. They organized the Ridgway riots (TIME, June 9), called a general strike of 2,000,000 Red-led workers. Both were disastrous flops. National Assemblyman Jacques Duclos, France's No. 1 Communist, was tossed into jail by Prime Minister Pinay's cops, and stays there; this audacious move so startled his lieutenants that not one of them in the National Assembly has risen to invoke parliamentary immunity for Duclos. The comrades were confused: they hardly knew whether to proclaim Duclos' martyrdom or denounce him for stupidity...