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WHAT MAKES THE “ANTI-TAX NAPOLEON” TICK:

THE POWER BEHIND

SHORT,

PIERRE

strongly-

bu il 1, housewifely Woman of 33 with it

POUJADE

By Stephen Coulter

get.

voice.

Ten minutes later sho is drafting a marifesto, an hour after that writing a vitriolic

for the

movement's article paper coloured by anti-Semitism and xenophobia, and going on to note and type from there

out the minutes of a committee gathering.

could

Poujade At the noisy, rampaging

Yvette is frank smile and a taste for anything he

now the shrewd, with Jasi,

Yvette's aid, he movement sweeping through mistrustful, fiercely

opinlated pendant car-rings and white

tiny apied

bookseller France. She sat up until all and tireless guide to this "union wool berets, is causing more stationer's shop. IL puld

hours 50

in the uncomfortable of malcontents." She is the one intrigued talk over the badly and children had come Poujade home working with or political adviser who never

ganisers, calling

leaves her husband's side. She meetings,

thinks of everything-from high polities to clean linen. When It is she who decided Poujado Poujade steps down in a sweat. to launch bis movement in bath after haranguing a mass North Africa and the French meeling. Yvette 1 there in creeks porressions. It she personally to hand film towel, who coins his clever slogans like, "Tha great man of the past look giants to you, because you are on your knees," and The poor need their Napoleon,"

coffee cups in France at this meanwhile-that he had to up-sing the next step. moment than Grace Kelly plement earnings by driving

local taxi, printing postcards,

A year ago, when the move- or a bevy of duchesses,

touring the countryside as sales-

ment seemed to be dying on its man for different firms,

feet. It was she again who took Yvette She is

Poujade,

But the time, Yvette had a bold decision trud urged her wife of Pierre Poujade, the been quietly observing, think- husband "Keep your ideas big, "anti-tax Napoleon" who ing and planning and at this We must go into national dry shirt, frosh tie. shook France with his two point she stepped in. This politica." At this time, Poujade was publicly scoring not the life for us," she told himself and a half million

into such notions, roundly denying he votes. Yvette Poujade is Poujad

local polities "

wanted anything to do with now appearing as the Grey

Parliament Eminence behind the spec- tacular rise-and as many people think, the dangerous rise of the Poujade Move- ment.

election

"We must

*

First spark

POUSADE was staggered when elected municipal he was councillor. Not so Yvette; she The French pre sireedy calling knew ber man and what Yvette "the new Passionaria" she wanted. She was behind after Doforts Tharuru, the him when he defiantly bolted has Bery Spanish revolutionary of shop door to the tax inspector.

In one sense they

Her ideas

to pushed him Unlike

Dolores, encourage other shopkeepers to Yvette Poujade is no obvious do likewise-and thus struck firebrand, no violently-coloured, the Arst sporic that was to send rubble-rousing personality with

the thirties

WI

the gift of witing mass meetings ablaze.

colm

She ia almost icily She

unhurried,

methodical,

She looks unimaginative,

13

almost humdrum

homely Bul

the authentie Pasmaria fire is

there inside,

So is vivid ima-

With and extreme astuteness.

her, Poujude could not have sent. 53 of his followers sorming into Parliament with a the

rumble 1101

French

Is rocking

republican State to its

foundations.

Hard going

JVETTE Poujnde was born in Algeria of well-off French

中點

風

俗

KOWLOON

seltier parents. She had on execent educullon (better than

her husband's; le scarcely rose above primary classes) and

the Free

when the Americans landed in North Africa, joined French Forces da a nurse.

only + young

though

was

Al

girl, she

already In her quiet way. beginning to have strong feel-

Ings chout politics, about French

"rights" in North Africa, about

the "guilty men who had led

France to disaster, about the

Jews and her own "Napolenic"

fdeas on the need for a tough French nationalism,

When Pierre Poulade, escap-

ing through Spain from his home of St Core, southern Fiz.co, to join de Gruße, met her in Algiers, he must have realised at once that she was an exceptional woman.

The

AFCILE

clique

"and Its rotteo

Do

Quick-witted

This quick-witted woman with the slightly protruding OES he look as if he needs a Yvette knew better, Tirelessly drink, a shave? None of his teeth dresses quietly, mostly in she sat behlad him on every

dates to black, often wears pugilist bodyguards

religious cicction platform; she was at his suggest them. Like a clever cross on a gold chain round her

neek and elbow constantly throughout the boxer's manager, Yvette knows

has put two of her. fearsomely exhausting campaign

four children (three boys, one what he wants, when he wants oil over the country. Again it, if it is to be orange juice, gr) Into a Catholic school. Poujade was singgered

as he grug, tea or coffee and exactly

Not election

without reasori heard carly

doca results how hot. Poujade reaches out giving his men a dozen seats.

say "She saved my takes it automatically Poujade und When Yvelte but noted down 52 like her advice.

life. There is no doubt that the

of Yvettc Poujadists clected, she merely

personality sulfod, lay back in the car in

Poujade will be behind many which they were travelling to

things happening in France in Paris, and slept quietly.

the days to come,

Between two rushed meetings she prepares the inhaling treat ment that he takes to spare as

1st year 2nd year 3rd year 4th year 5th year 6th year 7th year 8th year 9th year 10th year]

100

BAKCELL

BARGORY

KARKET!

KAPER!

With gets workersing #kafes. Fructal ucisk,

92

compatiblity. Or one bought. Į the attan raturas į

ja mrk.

100

50

30

20

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this rathe

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NE FÜR SOUL.

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CHART SPECIALLY DRAWN BY MICHAEL RAND

IT'S THE SIX-YEAR ITCH

WHEN A MARRIAGE IS MOST LIKELY TO GO CRACK —REVEALED BY AN EXPERT'S ANALYSIS"

By JOHN LAMBERT

ing. Suddenly sho. Imagines herself being reduced to a domestic drudge... Troublo starts.".

But the real danger years for any marriage are between the fifth and tenth. :anniversities. Explained Mr Wallis: Tho years are the real testing time. "It takes TEN YEARS tớ marriage breaking down are The child,-who was so lovable make a marriage because it only one in 16. If she is be as a baby, is growing into the LOOK at the chart above, fakty to know each people are 3: 1in auth.

It is based on a new really to know each other as are one in ten. Under 19 they manding more and more money. were both transferred to Free

man and wife."

Jump to one in four. French H. Q. i Britain and analysis. of what makes a

"The husband realises all the. Decisions on whether or not married in

In London.

Pierre marriage go wrong given His opinion is backed by the they will have familles will also responsibilities he has taker on, the wife knows how much abe menaged

lotter me by Mr John Wallis, of other experts who have chocked affect their chances of success sheriflood. smuggled to his old friend M. the Marriage Guidance on marriages during the last ten For coupler who have no Gauzin, in St Cere. "I've

chitdran take a

*The 1-20-1 risk on

'danger thén, anolber Council, married

their marriage cracking. Sen many another, woman, y to die for

It shows not only what makes up the war

Just the age of the brida One of the biggest factors in And after 10 years? ....i

"Marrl": in St

a marriage go wrong, but how may decide success or failure marriage break-up in the ins ages still break up,” Jadelitos: the Poujados found life long the break-up takes to come. For post-war marriages" "wialis dependence of prommy Me Wallie" "But often the going Pierre Poujade Beo how the *danger units" Lice prove that the younger the sand, Mel Wallemal your reason in that the couples have had already had many jobs soar and reach their pesic in bride the bigger the risk of married, with four children not given those first. 10, years a local snake-killer typesetter, the SIXTII year.

breakdown.

JWives usually start off by real chance, i A Boilermakor, grape picker, Mr Wallis, who has trained, men take

recome their job. But then ). “In 99 cans out of a hundred, wine-merchant, air force ser 450 experts for the Marriage

eant, Now he had to pick up Guidance Council, y

to

get

J

ready je

a

wonderful

girl.

I'm

hand

years.

It the bride is between 233 this independent womer has after 10 years; (4) matings 11 and · 27 ̋ the chalices, of her her Arrt, baby, stidi stopa rocka mada ta länt.

IT'S ALL A MATTER OF WORDS

By Alexander Broad

Washington THE American public and Lewis Carroll's Humpty Dumpty have one bellof in common: In the matter of words "the question is who's to be the master?"

Words, however, have way of getting their back.

A

own

If you decide that powdered beef bone shail henceforth be called "panactum" and proclaimed the wonder in- gredient in footh powders, YOU will very soon flod yourself be- lieving that powdered beef bone docs have mirachulous powers.

And oil is with the new phrase "coil bank,"

The fact of the matter is that the U.S. is producing more food Uan is good for the country. And, paradoxically, since

murpluses tend to depress world prices the U.S. is "pro- ducing more food than is good for the world-even, it seema, a hungry world like this.

LEAST PAINFUL

50 the U.S. Government must persuade farmers to pro- duce Icas. That means growing less--taking land out of use.

The quickest and least painful way of doing the job is to pay farmers for not growing food,

So bath President Eisenhower

and his Democratic opponents are proposing to pay farmerB for leaving their land idic.

It, however, you told the taxpayer that farmers were going to be paid for not terming there would be an uproar. Who not pay bricklayers for not lay- ing bricks? Or journalists for conscientiously staying from their typewriters?

awny

Hence, the phrase "soll bank.” Soil which is in the "bank" will be soll that is not growing anything. And for every such acre the farmer will receive a. gift from the Government.

The implication of the phrase "soll bank" is that the land will be in storage, getting richer.

Now it is true that there are large areas of he U.S. where land is overworked, Some of these areas formed the famous "rtust bowl" In the 1930s,

And the publle can, perhaps, be made to believe that such land will profit handsomely. from its rest.

CHANGED CROPS

of

Actually, however, much the land rested" will not be this kind of land at all..And. much of it will be land that would profit more from having its crops changed than trom having a rest-some plants, after all, put into the soil what others take out:

Perhaps if the farmers "reat- ing" their soll Invested their payments in fertilizer or in pre- cautions against erosion or i irrigation projects where such mensures are useful, something would be achieved.

Alas, the payments are design- ed to cover a part of the profit the farmer would have made by growing something. That profit is what he lives on. Which leaves the soil about where it came

10....

Nevertheles, it is fairly cer tain that the American tax- payer will come to regard the "sall bank" es another American achievement.

great

Now who is master-the man or the words?

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER'