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...that Poujade has not mentioned tax reform since election, and he no longer talks of hanging. He is now intent on winning more moderate Frenchmen who are disgusted with the regime but dismayed by violent methods. He wants to live down the nickname hung on him in the campaign: "Poujadplf." Cagily, Poujade refused to join patriotic groups in a display in support of the Algiers demonstrations against Premier Guy Mollet. "They wanted Poujade to march on the Champs Elysées so that they could provoke the crowd and smash a few faces. The next morning every newspaper in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: An Ordinary Frenchman | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

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