Word: pinay
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...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...
...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...
They also failed to count on the invigorated government of Premier Antoine Pinay. After a cabinet meeting, Pinay threatened immediate suspension and discipline for any government employees who answered the strike call. Said Interior Minister Charles Brune: "There will be no provocations on our part, but if the demonstrators act roughly the countermeasures will be even rougher...
...vigilance," i.e., getting caught. While he remained in jail, the party would probably put up bumbling, hard-boiled Andre Marty of Spanish Civil War notoriety as the front man. The government, which had already jailed scores of Stalinists amid general applause, went on a hunt for big game. Pinay's men said that they raided Communist centers in Brest, Lorient and Bordeaux, and announced that they had broken an espionage case at Toulon...