Word: poujadistes
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There were only a few grumbles. Jacques Soustelle, Gaullist ex-governor of Algeria, pronounced his verdict: "Nasser wins only because he hasn't lost." Mollet entered an Assembly dissatisfied by partial victory. He saw his chance when a Poujadist Deputy, going too far, complained: "Our paratroopers died for the Queen of England." Wrapping his fingers around a floor microphone, Mollet shouted: "Never forget that if we are able to sit on these benches and speak as free men it is because from 1940 to 1941 the British held on alone." Every Deputy but the Poujadists and Communists gave...
After three days of closed-door conferences guarded by stalwart, arm-banded youths of the Poujadist Service d'Ordre, the 400 delegates approved Poujade's program. All talk of mutiny was quelled by Poujade's threat to resign. "If you want me as active chairman," he said, "you must support me. The day I have to take the scalpel, my hand will not shake. But remember, the surgeon never operates without the full consent of the family." With a shouted ovation, the family gave its consent...
...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...
...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...