Gibe of the Week

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Fledgling Right Wing. With their help, he was able to do without the Socialists, who have sabotaged so many of France's weak governments of the center. His cabinet looked the same as most of those before it, with Robert Schuman still anchor man as Foreign Minister. His program, too, was sketchy; perhaps he would fall as soon as he tried to fill it out. But still, unknown Antoine Pinay had already proved that the Socialists could be left out, that Gaullists can be split, and that, for the first time since World War II, a homogenous right-wing government might be possible. For French politics these days, all that was something.