Word: poujadistes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet visit could prove a turning point in Sir Anthony Eden's political fortunes. He gave nothing away and got something back: he may become co-founder of a useful new phase in international affairs. Certainly, his merciless detractors in the Tory press, and among the "Poujadist fringe" of the weeklies, who have always scorned the value of such a visit, are now looking rather silly...
...turned to a growl. Poujade complained: "Usually reporters are happy to get a 20-minute interview. You've been haunting me night and day, and you're still not satisfied." Before long he was unwilling to talk at all to TIME. When Correspondent De Carvalho protested, a Poujadist cracked: "Maybe you have millions of American readers, but they don't vote in France." Said De Carvalho: "No, but French voters read...
...news reached Paris on the eve of a full-dress debate on the Algerian situation in the Chamber of Deputies, and gave emotional force to the right's demand for stronger action in Algeria. Shouted Poujadist Bullyboy Jean-Marie Le Pen: "The problem in North Africa is military before everything else." But the news also strengthened the government's demand that French Resident Minister Robert Lacoste get special powers to handle the situation. With his opening words to the Assembly, Lacoste drew a crash of applause from everyone except the Communists : "Not a single Frenchman-I say this...
...When Poujadist Jean-Marie Le Pen and his nine comrades got to the hall, they were besieged by a mob of 5,000, beaten with knuckledusters, bottles, lead pipes and crowbars. Le Pen broke up a chair to make a club, battled his way clear. Only after the police decided the Poujadists had learned their lesson did they intervene. "In Toulouse, as in all France, Fascism will not pass," orated the mayor, and led the crowd in the Marseillaise and the Internationale...
...week long Poujadist filibustering and Communist clamoring tied up the Assembly. At week's end the moderate majority moved to limit the electoral attack on the Poujadists. All too many Frenchmen had been sharply reminded of the parallel fascist-Communist clashes of 1934 that foreshadowed the decline and fall of the Third Republic...