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...THICK OF THE FIGHT (684 pp.) -Paul Reynaud-Simon & Schuster...
When it comes to putting Frenchmen into the tumbrels of political recrimination, none are more skillful than other Frenchmen. In The Gravediggers of France, in 1944, French Journalist Pertinax (André Géraud) called Paul Reynaud the third gravedigger (after Gamelin and Daladier and before Pétain and Laval). Reynaud now makes an eloquent case for the proposition that, if he helped dig the grave, it was really his political enemies who committed the murder and provided the corpse...
...familiar faces crossed the scene. Crowds heard again from Edouard Daladier, France's agent at Munich, and Paul Reynaud, Premier when France fell. Aged (83) but intrepid Edouard Herriot got from meeting to meeting in his wheelchair. Bodyguards propped ailing Communist Chief Maurice Thorez before microphones to breathe a few words on behalf of Red candidates...
...figure that France cuts in the world, because of ministerial instability, wounds and irritates Frenchmen. The Assembly can overthrow as many governments as it pleases without any other motive than the opportunity of its members to satisfy ambitions overstimulated by the very frequency of the crises." Added Reynaud with a bitter irony: "It's becoming a disgrace not to have been a minister just like everyone else...
...Reynaud's plan for reducing the recurrent crises: 1) make the constitution easier to amend, 2) then pass an amendment which makes dissolution of Parliament and new elections automatic when a government is defeated on a censure motion, or a vote of confidence, within two years after taking office...