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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After three weeks of floundering in crisis, Fance had a new government. The new Premier was Georges Bidault, 50, head of the Mouvement Républicain Populaire (the French branch of Europe's Christian democrats). At midnight, with his cabinet posts already assigned and the Radical and Socialist parties satisfied, Bidault went before the Assembly and won a cushiony vote of confidence, 367 to 183. Every non-Communist deputy except one voted for Bidault; yet there were many who, with deep misgivings about the prospects of his regime, voted for him because they could not stand the floundering...
...presented his government to President of the Republic Vincent Auriol. To tired, ailing M. Auriol, most of the faces were familiar. Socialist Jules Moch, who had tried unsuccessfully to form the new government, was again the Minister of Interior. The M.R.P.'s able, courageous Robert Schuman, an ex-Premier himself, had been retained as Foreign Minister. The Radicals' Henri Queuille, Premier of the previous government, was kept on as Vice Premier. The Peasant Party's Maurice Petsche remained as Minister of Finance. In all, ten members of the Queuille government had places in the new regime...
Coalition Dilemma. Said Premier Bidault last week: "We must govern in the center with the aid of the right to reach the goals of the left." This Gallic triple-talk indicated the weakness of the coalition that Bidault must depend upon to govern. As long as the present Chamber of Deputies exists, only patchwork coalitions of devious and delicate compromise will be possible. An increasing number of deputies want to dissolve the Chamber and hold new elections. Yet that would do little good unless there were a change in France's basic electoral law. The present law, providing...
...good word with Premier Stalin himself (TIME, April 28, 1947). The Trib's new correspondent was Joseph Newman, veteran of the Japan and Argentina beats, who was already in Russia as a special correspondent for the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers and just stayed...
This coalition had appeared to be in danger ever since the resignation of Premier Henri Queuille on October 5: the efforts successively of Jules Moch, Socialist, and Rene Mayer, Radical Socialist, to form acceptable governments had failed...