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...week's end the President of France, René Coty, made one of his infrequent departures from Olympian impartiality. In a speech he endorsed Faure's program for a peaceful "interdependence" in North Africa, condemned "abominable violence" by Frenchmen, and attacked Arab agitators from "certain foreign countries...
...René d'Harnoncourt, director of Museum of Modern Art . . . . . L.H.D...
...place, the French proposed pipe-smoking René Mayer, 60, who was Premier of France for four months in 1953. An able banker-businessman who has a family connection with the wealthy Rothschilds, Mayer served with De Gaulle in North Africa during World War II. Later, as chief spokesman for the hard-shelled North African colons, it was he who delivered the crucial, brutal Assembly speech which brought down his fellow Radical Socialist and arch-political foe, Premier Pierre Mendès-France (TIME, Feb. 14). He is a sufficiently good European to satisfy the Catholic M.R.P. members of Faure...
Point of Departure. Faure was well aware that his field of choice was narrow. Fail to satisfy the colons' demands, and he might bring his own downfall at the hands of the 50 Deputies, headed by ex-Premier René Mayer, who represent the rich pro-colon lobby in the Assembly. Fail to satisfy the demands of the Arab moderates, and France might eventually lose all North Africa...
...Mendes comeback. They include such other ex-Premiers as slothlike Henri Queuille, the father of immobilisme; Edouard Daladier, the appeaser of Munich; 82-year-old Edouard Herriot, who fought German rearmament tooth and claw. And they include two diehard conservatives, Léon Martinaud-Déplat and René Mayer, who engineered Mendès' downfall. The Radical Socialists come close to being the fulcrum of French politics...