Word: reformative
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York state alone, where the pre-trial conference has been combined with similar moderate reform methods, the backlog has been reduced by one-third in a single year. Equity has come that much closer to the citizen-statistic...
...Chamber of Deputies, Premier Guy Mollet in schoolmasterly fashion announced his government's program for meeting and quelling Algerian unrest: 1) vigorous military effort to restore order; 2) economic reform; 3) free elections as soon as possible to provide Algerian spokesmen with whom France can work out a political future for Algeria. In short, said Mollet, demanding a vote of confidence, "neither abandonment of the rights of France, nor denial of her duties...
...refusal to pay taxes into a patriotic duty. In cafés and village squares, Poujade cried: "We must refuse to pay tribute to a corrupt system which breaks our backs while sparing the giant profiteers who are pillaging France. Only by united resistance can we force them to reform the rotten regime which now threatens France with ruin...
...tired of people looking for lice in my hair. I fought the Germans and I know what resistance is. I don't need anybody to give me lessons in patriotism." Asked one man at a recent Saint-Céré meeting: "But what about tax reform?" Snapped Poujade: "That's precisely what we're fighting for, but to achieve real basic reforms we must reform the whole system...
Widening the Front. The truth is 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...