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...when the National Assembly duly mowed down Socialist Guy Mollet by a vote of 290 to 227, and the French national radio did not even bother to stay on the air to announce the result. But it was also the fifth week of the crisis. Irritably, conscientious President René Coty, 75, summoned his confidential aide, barked: "I want a man tonight. Get me Felix Gaillard...
Last week President René Coty went back to the man he had tried first-durable, hardheaded Socialist Guy Mollet, whose government fell on the issue of high taxes only last May after having lasted longer than any other since the war. Mollet offered a grim, emergency program of raised taxes and slashed government expenditures, finally won a tentative promise from Antoine Pinay's rightists to abstain rather than vote against him on his own promise not to push any Socialist programs. Mollet also demanded a new system of voting in the Assembly to stabilize government tenure. His reform...
...Ripening. At week's end all signs were that De Gaulle was right. In the approved manner, quiet President René Coty let the crisis "ripen" for three days, then called in Socialist Guy Mollet, and asked him to form a government. When Mollet admitted defeat, Coty turned to René Pleven, head of the small U.D.S.R., whose chances of success were, if anything, less than Mollet...
...very dear Nadia, Al-le-lu-jah!" Later, musicians performed another birthday tribute: a cantata by Composer Jean Françaix for five strings, five winds and six-handed piano. Over the bubbly, breakneck music ex-pupils chanted their praise of Nadia. One, made up to look like President René Coty of France, paid the Fourth Republic's tribute; another, costumed like a priest, intoned, "St. Nadia, protect us," and two more singers, representing Sebastian (Bach) and Igor (Stravinsky), chanted: "Long live peaceful coexistence...
...Career: as protégé of Planner Jean Monnet helped draw up program for postwar modernization of French industry. Spent a year in U.S. as Monnet's assistant. In 1946 was elected a Radical Socialist Deputy from the Charente; in 1953, as Secretary of State to Premier René Mayer, launched le plan Gaillard, a five-year program for French atomic energy development. After holding junior office in four successive Cabinets went into temporary eclipse during the premiership of fellow Radical Socialist Pierre Mendès-France, who thought him overly conservative, overly Europe-minded. In 1955 headed...