Word: socialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audibly grumbling Deputies had their own ill-tempered answer for Bourgès' attitude: they voted 240 to 194 to make him Premier, installing him with fewer votes than Socialist Guy Mollet had in his favor in losing...
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...
Bourgés-Maunoury had first to win approval of his own deeply divided Radical Socialist Party, among whom are such antagonists as Pierre Mendes-France and such influential though relatively unknown anti-Europeans as diminutive Newspaper Owner Jean Baylet, whose Dépéche du Midi circulates its narrow message throughout France's poorer South. Radicals questioned Bourges sharply about his plans, finally voted 44 to 10 that he take his first step. Muttered a Radical Deputy: "That doesn't mean we've approved him yet as Premier...
...next move came from the Socialists. The hundred Socialist Deputies had taken a pledge: they would serve only under a Socialist Premier. Last week, in a complete about-face, they said they would take part in a government formed by Radical Socialist Bourgés-Maunoury. The surprise decision gave Bourges a better-than-even chance of forming a government...
...since 1946. he has served in a dozen Cabinets, holding such portfolios as Finance. Interior and Defense. A strong pro-European who quit the Mendés-France Cabinet in 1954 after the defeat of EDC, he has been fighting Mendés-France ever since within the Radical Socialist Party. The chief architect of Suez intervention, he is 100% behind the muscular Algerian policy...