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...Queuille was hoping for a miracle. What he would actually get, if some of his colleagues had their way, would be a stab in the back. A plan was afoot to bring the Communists back into the government. Chief instigator was that old darling of the U.S. press, Edouard Herriot, President of the Assembly. Following Herriot's lead were about 30 Socialist deputies, a score of M.R.P. deputies and a few Radicals. One of this group explained their ideas...
...Parliament is dissolved, which might happen at any time with Charles de Gaulle waiting in the wings, the constitution provides that the Assembly president shall take over as "acting Premier" until a new government is formed. That would be Radical Socialist Edouard Herriot of Lyon, reliable as an oak, who was re-elected to the presidency last week. But M. Herriot is old and ailing. If he were too ill to serve, the first vice president would take over. Therefore, reasoned the Assembly majority, Jacques Duclos must not again be first vice president...
...Edouard Herriot, president of the French National Assembly, onetime Premier, off-&-on littérateur, was the latest immortal to be admitted to the French Academy...
Temperatures ran high. Socialist Minister of the Interior Edouard Depreux had police reinforcements patrolling the center of Paris all night. Radio stations received instructions on what to do in case of sabotage. President of the Republic Auriol was away in Africa (see below), and his standin, good, grey Edouard Herriot, was abed in Lyons with acute phlebitis. In the absence of Auriol or Herriot, the First Vice President of the Assembly, Communist Jacques Duclos, would be interim President of the Republic. Panicky M.R.P. Minister of Justice Pierre-Henri Teitgen sent a special plane to bring Herriot to Paris...
...tell); a crossword puzzle emphasizing global words (No. i across: "goal of the U.N." in five letters); and a four-page picture sequence showing U.N. delegates shaking hands and grinning vaguely at each other. In its table of contents were names like Pearl Buck, Arthur Compton, Trygve Lie, Edouard Herriot; on its editorial masthead were names like William L. Shirer, Thomas Mann, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vincent Sheean and Lin Yutang. The magazine's real head is Publisher Egbert White, a former Manhattan advertising executive who ran Yank and the Mediterranean Stars and Stripes for the Army...