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Premier Rene Pleven, in office for seven months, had resigned after failing to get the parties in his Third Force coalition to agree on a plan to change France's election law. Wrapped up in the electoral issue is the political future of France. Unless the election system is drastically changed, French governments will continue to totter along with weak coalitions of fractional parties facing a solid Communist bloc. The electoral fight boils down to one question: Are the differences between the non-Communist parties greater than the difference between them as a group and the Communists...
Almost every reform proposal put forward by Pleven was hammered to death by the combination of one of these parties and the consistently opposed Communists. When the two-ballot system came before the Assembly's suffrage committee, it was beaten by the Communists and the M.R.P. When a party alliance clause (favorable to the M.R.P.) came up, it was beaten by the Communists and the Radicals...
Irreducible Blocs. After 18 election plans had been cold-shouldered by the committee, Pleven two weeks ago put a last government compromise up for general Assembly debate. The Assembly encouragingly voted for the principle of reform, 327 to 166. Only the Communists dissented. Then the rival parties knocked down twelve plans for implementing...
...otherwise paid no attention. By Wednesday afternoon the opposing blocs were almost equal. All hope of putting through any plan was gone. Without risking an adverse vote of confidence (which would have forced inclusion of Communists in an all-party caretaker government pending an election under the old law), Pleven quickly resigned...
...faithful TIME reader for 20 years, allow me to praise you for your biographical notes, beginning with France's Premier René Pleven [TiME, Jan. 29] and continuing, in your Feb. 5 issue, with Brazil's President Getulio Vargas. They are marvelous syntheses of unprejudiced, impartial and accurate facts...