Word: premiership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fiddlers. At 61, Paul Reynaud was one of that rapidly diminishing body of Frenchmen who had never been Premier. In March 1940, he assumed the premiership of France at war, and with it, disaster. Before two months had gone, the Panzers were smashing through Belgium and the Stukas were at work over the choked roads. By then the reader has progressed 340 pages into modern Europe's worst tragedy, but has heard nothing of the rumble of a falling civilization. Instead, he hears the sharp noises of those professional fiddlers-French politicians-who are always tuning up, but whose...
...Baghdad landholders. At the last election in 1954, Nuri es-Said and his sheiks obviously had things well under control: on election day, 122 of the 135 parliamentary seats were uncontested. Democracy this may not be, but by Middle East standards, it is good government. Now in his 15th premiership and growing frail and hard of hearing, Nuri is inclined to leave to his successors such matters as educating Iraqis to use the big public works his government is creating...
...polls next month, the French voters will face a chance between supporters of two middle-of-the-road candidates: Edgar Faure and Pierre Mendes-France. Despite the improvement of the French economy during Faure's reign, Mendes-France is undoubtedly the most able candidate for the Premiership. During his brief tour of duty on the Front Bench, his record was admirable. He removed the French from the seething crisis in Indo-China, placed his nation preponderatingly within the Western Defense Alliance, opened the way to settlement of the North African situation and, most important of all, proposed a new economic...
Before the balloting, Faure had told a Cabinet meeting that he had no desire to continue in office with Communist support. He had not been defeated, and therefore was not obliged to resign. Edgar Faure, whose thirst for the premiership is all but unquenchable, decided to stay on the job, even though the Communists had given him his margin of survival...
...most Deputies were in a chastened mood. Stubby little Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay spent hours in corridors and offices whipping his moderates and rightists into line. If they were counting on him to replace Faure, he told them, they were wrong. He would flatly refuse to accept the premiership. "If the government is overthrown," he said, "it will mean rejection of the European statute for the Saar, revival of German nationalism, undermining of the Atlantic alliance, and France's inability to play any influential role at the four-power talks in Geneva...