Word: troquers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While he was away last week, the National Assembly convened to elect a new President. On the third ballot. Deputies voted 232 to 188 to turn out Incumbent Socialist André Le Troquer. whose party has been most consistently behind Mendès' policies in spite of its refusal to join his Cabinet. In Le Troquers place the Deputies elected Pierre Schneiter of the Roman Catholic M.R.P. Though Schneiter, a Resistance hero and mayor of Reims, is personally not hostile to Mendès in the fashion of Mendès-hating M.R.P.er Georges Bidault and his followers...
...voting began. Deliberately, Mendès-France and his Cabinet abstained. When it was over, Assembly President Le Troquer, who had lost an arm to the Germans in World War I, announced: "By 319 votes against 264, the National Assembly adopts the question préalable. In consequence, ratification of the European Defense Community Treaty is rejected...
...choice of Herriot's successor quickly narrowed down to right-of-center Pierre Pflimlin and a 69-year-old Socialist lawyer named André Le Troquer, the Assembly's vice president for the past six years. In the predominantly rightist Assembly, Pflimlin was the favorite. But after three ballots, Le Troquer, one-armed veteran of World War I and a man of the Resistance in World War II, won by a vote...
What happened to Pierre Pflimlin? His devotion to Roman Catholicism had lost him anticlerical votes on the right and center; his outspoken endorsement of EDC had cost him Gaullist support. But France's Communists were the really decisive force behind Le Troquer's victory...
While the conservatives dissipated their strength in quibblings, the Communists threw their 100-vote bloc solidly to Le Troquer. Crowed the Reds in a special victory communique: "By their vote the Communists intend to show their will to fight with the Socialist workers to pre vent ratification of the Bonn agreements and the Treaty of Paris [EDC]." Next day Socialist Le Troquer, a good anti-Communist who is regarded as "more for than against" the EDC, tried to shake off this unilateral attempt to recreate a Popular Front. Said he in his acceptance speech, as the Reds sat silent...