Word: mitterrand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French say they will not negotiate the Algerian question-that revolt on the soil of Algeria is treason. "The only negotiation," said Interior Minister Francois Mitterrand, "is war." The Algerian nationalists have an answer: "La valise ou le cercueil"-meaning, if you don't take a traveling bag, you will get a coffin...
...political sickness. Their theory: Dides, under the direction of disgruntled right-wingers of Mendès' own Radical Socialist Party, had deliberately used the defense leaks to try to discredit Mendès and bring the downfall of his Minister of the Interior, François Mitterrand...
...that Mendès incurred the personal enmity of some of the Radical Socialist old guard when he took the Interior Ministry, which they had long considered their own special bailiwick, away from Radical Socialist Léon Martinaud-Déplat and gave it to young, energetic Francois Mitterrand of the moderate, splinter-sized Democratic and Socialist Resistance Union. The bitterness was quickly evident. Though Martinaud-Déplat had learned of the first leak before Mendès took office, he neglected to tell his successor Mitterrand about it. Bitterness increased as Mitterrand began cleaning out Martinaud...
...that was the plan, it had misfired. The discovery that the first leak had occurred during Laniel's government diverted the onus from Mendes personally, and the arrest of Turpin and Labrusse scotched the innuendoes that Mitterrand was willing to be overtolerant to Communist infiltration of the government...
...passed without an arrest, press and politicians of the right wing cried for action and implied that Mendès-France and his ministers were powerless or afraid to act. If the Dides affaire was not to blossom into a full-scale threat to the regime's existence, Mitterrand and his police needed more-facts and arrests. One morning last week, the police rocked the country with two arrests. Jailed as the men who leaked from the Defense Committee were René Turpin, 42, and Roger Labrusse, 40, both ardent leftists and both high-ranking officers on the staff...