FRANCE Revolving Door
After 390 days of successful "immo-bilism" (patient compromise, appeasement, moderation), the government of mild little Henri Queuille headed last week for the nearest exit. The events of the week threw, once more, a glare on the weaknesses of coalition government and of the French "revolving door" system.
M. Queuille is a Radical Socialist (in the French spectrum, somewhat to the right of center). For more than a year he had shepherded a coalition cabinet of Radicals, Socialists, and Popular Republicans. He had frozen wages; but prices kept on oozing upward.
By last week the Queuille cabinet had agreed that the...
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