Word: auriolism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...French newspapers have been translating the U.S. phrase "cold war" as la guerre froide. To an imaginative and linguistically fertile people, this lacked a certain savor. Last week a new and entirely French label for the "cold war" was launched by one-eyed President of the Republic Vincent Auriol himself...
...C.G.T.'s Benoît Frachon tried a last-ditch expedient. He called on one-eyed President Vincent Auriol at Elysée Palace and asked him to send Schuman's strike bill back to the Assembly for a second reading. The President of the Republic has that right, but Auriol refused. Next day Frachon telephoned Maurice Thorez, secretary of the French Communist Party, just back from Moscow. Said Frachon to Thorez: "I cannot hold much longer. I warn you, the situation is getting out of control...
...Dream. Communist strikes and violence were numbing the country. More openly than ever, the Reds admitted that their main objective was to block aid from the U.S. In this crisis, who could form a government? President Vincent Auriol asked 75-year-old Socialist Léon Blum to try. But M. Blum, it seemed, was living in an old man's dream-the dream of a troisième force (third force) which would hold the democratic bastions against Gaullism and Communism alike. In his request to the Assembly for a vote of confidence, Léon Blum antagonized...
...Auriol then turned to a highly regarded man of the M.R.P. (Popular Republicans), 61-year-old Finance Minister Robert Schuman. M. Schuman roundly denounced the Communists and no one else. Consequently no one voted against him but the "Cocos" and a few mavericks. Py a vote of 412 to 184, Robert Schuman became France's new Premier...
...would not be necessary to have a coup d'état or a civil war for De Gaulle to return. Constitutionally, President of the Republic Auriol can invite any Frenchman to form a Government. De Gaulle will make a condition of his return that the Constitution give greater authority to the executive (or that the Assembly be dissolved after voting him emergency powers). Main points of the policy he would put into effect...