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...Charles de Gaulle's favorite maxims is that "power does not retreat" -by which he means that his government does not hesitate to take tough decisions. But last week, enmeshed in a showdown struggle with Antoine Pinay, the economic miracle worker of France's Fifth Republic, De Gaulle hesitated before the eyes of the whole world. Twice Pinay was summoned into conference with Premier Michel Debré, twice into discussions with President de Gaulle himself. At last, after a flurry of ambiguous communiques, came the laconic announcement that despite De Gaulle's "appreciation" of Pinay...
...waiting newsmen, peppery, popular little Antoine Pinay gave his own blunt version of his ouster. Torn between awareness of the public confidence that Pinay inspires and impatience with Pinay's questioning of De Gaulle's loyalty to the Western alliance, De Gaulle had sought to keep Pinay in the Cabinet by offering him the job of minister in charge of "longterm national policy." Snorted Pinay: "They wanted me to supervise our future but keep hands off the present . . . In the end they heaped me with flowers and chucked...
...Many Saviors. Pinay's ouster, as both he and De Gaulle clearly realized, marked the beginning rather than the end of a battle. Insisting that he was leaving "without bitterness." Pinay said he was temporarily withdrawing from politics-but in a phrase deliberately reminiscent of De Gaulle's self-imposed political retirement in 1946, Pinay proclaimed that he would "always remain at the disposition of the French people...
...help our country," cracked one cynical Parisian. "Now we have two saviors." Obviously, Pinay was aware that De Gaulle's term as President has six more years to run. But by forcing a break, and by posing it as a question of preserving France's monetary and economic stability, Pinay was setting himself up as the focal point of future conservative opposition to De Gaulle. One of the four remaining Independents in the Cabinet, Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Max Fléchet, resigned later in the week...
...seven-year contract. But it could very well undermine Premier Debre, a talented and remote lawyer faithful to De Gaulle but with little popularity of his own. Foreign confidence in the franc and the continued soundness of the French economy were at issue in the challenge posed by Antoine Pinay this week to Charles de Gaulle, returning to his first Cabinet meeting of the new year...