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...movement for a bigger administrative role, De Gaulle reshuffled his Government twice within a fortnight. Most important changes: as Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, Georges Bidault, president of the National Council of Resistance. (The former Foreign Commissioner, René Massigli, was appointed "Ambassador" to London.) As Commissioner of State, Jules Jeanneney, former President of the French Senate...
...three days in secret last week French Senators peppered dapper new Premier Paul Reynaud about Allied conduct of the war. Then they let the public in and gave the Premier a big cheer. Dry old President of the Senate Jules Jeanneney said M. Reynaud had "fully satisfied the Senate." Cried Senator James (Three-Star) Hennessy: "It seems to me we can thank the Government for the masterly way in which it has answered the questions of our committees...
Since it is considered indelicate to "run" for the Presidency, no man ever becomes an openly avowed candidate. Political tradition dictates that the President be chosen from the presiding officers of the Senate or Chamber. Jules Jeanneney, the Senate President, is 74 years old, however, and Edouard Herriot, the Chamber President, has decided not to allow his name to be put forward. French political observers believed last week that the best bet was a re-election of "Papa" Lebrun...
...members of the Chamber, who are a few years younger, alone had any right to upset the Popular Front. "Even if you desire such a change in the majority," cried Orator Blum, his voice rising, "it is only for the Chamber, elected by universal suffrage!" Here Senate President Jules Jeanneney cut the Premier short: "Mr. Premier, it is for the Senate, which is an assembly of the Republic, to pronounce its opinion freely-and it will do so in a few minutes...
...warning to the Chamber, the Senate by an almost unanimous vote decided that Speaker Jeanneney's speech should be posted up on notice boards in every French city, town and hamlet. Since the budget ought to have been voted by Jan. 1, appropriations and expenditures are now so out of balance that the total French deficit was estimated at $400.000,000 and was said to be increasing last week at the rate of $45.000 per hour...