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...year intervening since the court's first decision Minton was replaced by William J. Brennan, and last week Justice Brennan joined the liberal-tending War ren-Douglas-Black bloc to hold court-martial trials unconstitutional for overseas dependents. Reed was succeeded by Justice Charles Evans Whittaker, who did not participate in last week's decision. Harlan switched sides with the candid admission that time had given him "an opportunity for greater reflection.'' And Frankfurter, his mind finally made up. voted with last week's majority (but. like Harlan, only insofar as it affected capital cases...
Waiting Man. Declining President Coty's invitation to try again, outgoing Socialist Premier Guy Mollet instead recommended Radical Socialist René Billéres, who had been Education Minister in Mollet's recently defeated government. Billeres backed away ("I didn't consider myself qualified"), but he had a candidate in mind: fellow Radical Socialist Maurice Bourgés-Maunoury. 42. the Defense Minister in Mollet's government. Thus, without seeming to promote a former minister who was unpopular in Socialist ranks on account of his aggressive Algerian policy, Mollet obliquely named...
...Colombes stadium outside Paris, President René Coty watched Toulouse beat Angers for the soccer championship of France. Just behind him in the presidential box, conspicuous in his red tarboosh and thick glasses, sat France's favorite Algerian, Ali Chekkal, 60-year-old lawyer and onetime vice president of the Algerian Assembly. When the French were summoned before the bar of the U.N. Assembly last February to defend their Algerian policies, they took along Ali Chekkal as a living, breathing testimonial to France's real popularity with Algeria's Moslems...
France's President René Coty, a schoolmaster's son from Normandy, is often seen but seldom heard. Unannounced and unexpected, Coty took to the radio in an unprecedented midnight broadcast from Paris. His voice shook with emotion as he said: "There is no Frenchman in all the world, there is not a man with a heart who was not overcome with pity and horror in learning of the massive atrocities. These abominations are not only the act of a few bandits. The killers continue to execute the orders of their chiefs, of the same chiefs who, only...
...23rd time since World War II, French politicians sweated through the ceremonial dance of trying to form a government. President René Coty first offered the premiership to René Pleven, then to Antoine Pinay. Both refused. Pleven had been Defense Minister during Dienbienphu, feared ugly comparisons with the Algerian war. Parliamentary arithmetic ruled out any candidate without Socialist support, something Right-Winger Pinay could not get. Finally, the President summoned tall, white-haired Pierre Pflimlin, 50, to his oak-paneled office at the Elysee Palace for a two-hour talk, then walked him to the threshold and said...