Word: publicaine
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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...
Among the foreign speakers will be Premier Alcide de Gasperi of Italy, Maurice Schumann, brilliant leader of France's progressive Mouvement Républicain Populaire, Uruguay's Foreign Minister Eduardo Rodriguez Larreta. Some significant U.S. views will be voiced by Cardinal Spellman, Navy Secretary Forrestal, Sumner Welles, and James Carey, Secretary-Treasurer of the C.I.O...
From France: Young (35) Maurice Schumann is president of M.R.P. (Mouvement Républicain Populaire), the progressive party which attempts to translate into contemporary policy the principles of social justice enumerated by Pope Leo XIII. Before the war Schumann was a Paris journalist. From the time France fell until he landed in Normandy on Dday, Schumann was the nightly radio "spokesman of Free France." That gained him a reputation among French patriots second only to that of his chief, General Charles de Gaulle. Schumann's political popularity has grown while the General's has shrunk. One reason: Maurice...
Arrayed against the coalition was a handful of survivors of the old rightist parties and the powerful Mouvement Républicain Populaire, the Christian-Democratic party which has given De Gaulle his stoutest support. The M.R.P. had been counted as left of center; now perhaps it might fall to the right...
Clearest example of the new trend was the size of Georges Bidault's brand-new Mouvement Républicain Populaire in France. Its moderate progressivism attracted both Breton fisherfolk and Parisian shopkeepers. The strong religious base of the M.R.P. was not the prewar political Catholic group, which descended from the Royalist, anti-Dreyfusard reactionaries; the M.R.P. drew its ideology from the liberal social justice encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI. In economics it was left of the U.S. New Deal; but in political outlook it had much in common with Thomas Jefferson...