Word: publicains
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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...
...last week the Christian People's Party had become Norway's most surprising political phenomenon. Like other Christian parties across the ravaged face of Europe (e.g., the Mouvement Républicain Populaire in France), the twelve-year-old Norwegian party was built on deep foundations. Before the war it could gain no more than two seats in the Storting. Last month, in the liberation election (TIME, Oct. 22), it won seven. Resurgence of the Lutheran faith in war-weary Norwegians and the application of religious principles to politics accounted for the difference...
...Center is now occupied by the victorious Socialists and Popular Republicans (Mouvement Républicain Populaire). From them De Gaulle gets solid but not uncritical support. Last August the Socialists rejected fusion with the Communists by an overwhelming convention vote (10,112-to-274); thereby they won the support of shopkeepers, artisans, farmers and other petite bourgeoisie. The MRP, emerging from the Resistance, combines Christian and Socialist principles, appeals to the Church and to women (who voted for the first time in French history in the September cantonal elections and who now compose 53% of the electorate...
...great gainers were old Leon Blum's Socialists, in league with Foreign Minister Georges Bidault's youthful, lusty Mouvement Républicain Populaire (Socialist Christian movement...
Also running, but late in starting, were: 1) The Mouvement Républicain Populaire, a new left-of-center party which included Christian Democrats, like Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, and the moderate bourgeoisie; 2) the Radical Socialists, the old center party of Edouard Herriot (still a prisoner in Germany), now leaning for strength on the conservative peasantry. Barred from voting were many who once formed France's extreme right. A Government decree had withdrawn the franchise from collaborators...