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June force this collaborator to call the Premier once more, Pinay does not live in the Palais Matignon. He stays in Paris in his modest flat, and has not changed his life one little bit since getting the great power he has. When calied to forme the Cabinet, Pinay was first re— luctant,. He twice tried to decline. It is only the insistence of the President which finally forced his hand, And it is then, that he made his first strong statement : he would not follow doctrines, but would lead the state as a technician, like he leads his own small factory back home. Under these conditions, consulting the parties only for the minimum necessary, that he formed his Cabinet. It was a minority Cabinet, including only the Independents, the Radicals and the M.RsP. It was clearly a rightist cabinet, whose extreme left was the M.R.P. It was the first Cabinet openly to say that it was conservative. Thus the political experts gave it no long life, Still when Pinay came before parliament, he achieved one of the greatest majorities : with no compromise on his part, he had obtained that the Socialists did not dare to vote against him and that the Gaullists started to split wide open. What had happened was, that both in his radio pronouncements and in his address before parliament Pinay had spoken a language which appealed directly to the voter, For the first time in the fourth Republic, there spoke a man of absolute integrity, a man whom the masses instinctively trust, and one who in his simplicity spoke the words which the little man had longed to hear, Because Pinay is an extraordinary kind of orator, His speaches are far from demagogic. Their intellectual content, while silply expressed, are quite high. No great appeal, no oratory. His speaches are made for print, with their striking, sober form ulas. Spoken, they are like something out of a well-written books And with that Pinay is far from a good orator, He reads his speaches, Sometimes he fumbles. His voice is not trained. At the end of each sentence it goes down, so as to give it a lugubrious sound. Somehow one is reminded of funeral orations. But the content is such, and the sympathy radiated by the man is so great, that despite these many wealmesses his words appeal to the people. And the result was, that the politicians, Geullists, Socialists and M.eRePey getting ready to overthrow Pinay on the first vote of Confidegce, found themselves suddenly swamped by such a deluge of letters, wires and calls from their own rank-and-file that they simply did not dare to take a stand. For the first time, to the infuriation of the politicians, somebody hadgpealed above their heads to the voters directly.