Henri Queuille

Henri Queuille , born the March 31st 1884 with Neuvic d' Ussel and dead the June 15th 1970, is a Politician French.

Biography

He makes his studies of medicine in Paris and settles as general practitioner with Neuvic in 1908. He is elected Maire of Neuvic in 1912, General adviser of the canton of Neuvic in 1913 and is appointed district of Ussel (Corrèze) in 1914. At the beginning of the First World War, it is affected as doctor assistant medical officer at the hospital of Baccarat. In September 1916, to him is decreed the Military Cross, only decoration which it will carry. It takes part in the battles of Verdun and the offensive in the Somme.

Before the Second world war, its electoral mandates are: deputy radical socialist of the Corrèze of 1914 to 1935, then senator of 1935 to 1940. With the legislative elections which give in 1936 the victory to the Popular front, he refuses to present himself. The elections give then Marius Vazeilles, member of the Communist party, gaining in the district of Ussel.

Henri Queuille is named Secretary of State or minister on several occasions: Agriculture in 1924-25, 1926-28, 1930,1932-34, 1938-40, Public health (1930-31, 1934-35), postal and telecommunications authorities (1932), Public works (1937-38). Under this last function, it implements and applies the nationalization of the railroads started before. Creation without clash of the SNCF, within very short times, at the conclusion of delicate negotiations with the companies, is worth in Queuille the public homage of the President of the Council, Camille Chautemps, and the congratulations of Leon Blum.

He is President of the National federation of Reciprocity and the Agricultural Co-operation of 1935 to 1959.

Minister for the Supply in 1940, in the cabinet Paul Reynaud, it takes part as senator in the congress of Vichy on July 10th, 1940. He then refuses the granting of the full powerss with Pétain by a voluntary abstention. He withdraws himself then in Neuvic where he founds a charcoal company intended to supply the gas generators.

July 16th, 1941, it is revoked of its function of mayor of Neuvic by Vichy. At the time of a visit with Neuvic, Hettier de Boislambert the formless one that the general De Gaulle attaches a great importance to his rallying. After the failure of a first attempt at exfiltration, it succeeds, in April 1943 to gain London on board a plane Lysander of the RAF. A few days after its arrival, it launches with the BBC a call to Resistance intended for the peasants of France.

In November 1943, Henri Queuille is named police chief of State of the Committee of national Release. He also assumes the vice-presidency of it. In June 1944, he becomes minister of state for the first provisional government of the Republic and, for this reason, takes over temporarily the duties of the presidency during the absences of the de Gaulle general.

Favorable to the re-establishment of the republican institutions, Henri Queuille devotes himself, in the months which follow the Release, with the raising and the reorganization of the Radical party, tested hard by the war and the occupation.

He finds his seat at the Palais Bourbon of 1948 to 1956. He is minister of state in 1948 (Marie cabinet) and 1951-52 (Pleven cabinet), public Minister for Labor in 1948 (Schuman cabinet), Minister of Interior Department in 1950-51 (Pleven cabinet then in its own government), vice-president of the Council in 1949-50 (Bidault cabinet) and 1952-54 (cabinets Pinay, Mayer, Laniel).

He exerted the functions of President of the Council of the ministers with three recoveries:

of September 11th 1948 at October 5th 1949: to see Government Henri Queuille (1),
succédant with Robert Schuman (2 {{E}} government), and being in its turn replaced by Georges Bidault (2 {{E}} government),
of July 2nd 1950 at July 4th 1950: to see Government Henri Queuille (2),
succédant with Georges Bidault (3 {{E}} government), and being in its turn replaced by Rene Pleven (1 {{er}} government),
of March 10th 1951 at July 10th 1951: to see Government Henri Queuille (3),
succédant with Rene Pleven (1st government), and being in its turn replaced by Rene Pleven (2 government).

Whereas he is chief of the government, France signs the Atlantic Pacte. As Minister of Interior Department, it made vote the Loi of the political alliances intended to slow down the rise of the R.P.F and to reduce the influence of the Communists. It had acquired the reputation of wise in policy. He was also Minister for tourism (see the list).

In fact health issues practically put an end to its ministerial career in the middle of the years 1950; better bearing, it would have easily succeeded Vincent Auriol with the presidency of the Republic. In December 1953, whereas in Versailles the election of the new Head of the State lasted for ever, much hoped that it would end up being presented to leave the Parliament the dead end. Wiser than the others, he preferred to abstain from and lived even more than sixteen years.

In 1956, in dissension with Pierre Mendès France, it leaves the Party radical socialist and founds, with the right wing of this last, the republican Center, directed by the mayor of Nantes, André Morice.

Posterity

Because of his political long career, in particular under IVe Republic, and of the concise quotations that it could make on the exercise of the capacity, Henri Queuille (“the small Queuille father”, as it was called) ended up becoming the symbol of the inefficiency and the discredit of IVe République, empêtrée in the mode of the parties and, more generally, a certain design of the policy placed under the seal of the fatalistic and cynical impotence.

In spite of the political judgments which become truths, it remains of Queuille: the SNCF, the first attempt at homologation of the pesticides, a permanent support for agricultural mechanization and rural electrification, creation of what will become the cineclub of the ministry for Agriculture, the creation of the national bank of Agricultural credit, the creation of the agricultural engineering, the great development of the industry of the cold, the afforestation, the rise of tourism in Corrèze and, in homage to the presidency of the National company of horticulture of France, a variety of pinks (Gaujard obtaining, 1952) which appoints President Henri Queuille.

It should be added that it was by no means unpopular near the opinion; when, before the presidential election of 1953, l'Almanach of Combattant organized a survey near its readers to know which politician they wished to see in the Elysium, Queuille arrived very largely at the head. Obviously, much of war veterans wished that one as of theirs was elected.

Henri Queuille has the effect of having been the godfather in policy of two men whom the history will oppose on several occasions: in 1946 he advises with François Mitterrand to present himself in Nievre and in 1965 he proposes with Jacques Chirac to succeed to him two years later in his district of Corrèze.

Governmental functions

Under-secretary of State to Agriculture in the Government Alexandre Millerand (1) from January 20th to February 18th, 1920
Under-secretary of State to Agriculture in the Government Alexandre Millerand (2) from February 18th to September 24th, 1920
Under-secretary of State to Agriculture in the Government Georges Leygues from September 24th, 1920 to January 16th, 1921
Minister for Agriculture in the Government Edouard Herriot (1) from June 14th, 1924 to April 17th, 1925
Minister for Agriculture in the Government Edouard Herriot (2) from July 19th to 23rd 1926
Minister for Agriculture in the Government Raymond Poincaré (4) from July 23rd, 1926 to November 11th, 1928
Minister for Agriculture in the Government Camille Chautemps (1) from February 21st to March 2nd, 1930
Minister for the Public health in the Government Theodore Steeg from December 13rd, 1930 to January 27th, 1931
Minister for the Stations, Telegraphs and Telephones in the Government Edouard Herriot (3) from June 3rd to December 18th, 1932
Minister for Agriculture in the Government Joseph Paul-Boncour from December 18th, 1932 to January 31st, 1933
Minister for Agriculture in the Government Edouard Daladier (1) from January 31st to October 28th, 1933
Minister for Agriculture in the Government Albert Sarraut (1) from October 26th to November 26th, 1933
Minister for Agriculture in the Government Camille Chautemps (2) from November 26th, 1933 to January 30th, 1934
Minister for Agriculture in the Government Edouard Daladier (2) from January 30th to February 9th, 1934
Minister for Agriculture in the Government Gaston Doumergue (2) from February 9th to November 8th, 1934
Minister for the Public health and Physical education in the Government Pierre-Etienne Flandin (1) from November 8th, 1934 to June 1st, 1935
Public Minister for Labor in the Government Camille Chautemps (3) from June 22nd, 1937 to January 18th, 1938
Public Minister for Labor in the Government Camille Chautemps (4) from January 18th to March 13rd, 1938
Minister for Agriculture in the Government Edouard Daladier (3) from April 10th, 1938 to March 21st, 1940
Minister for the Supply in the Government Paul Reynaud from March 21st, 1940 to June 16th, 1940

Police chief of State charged with the Territories released in the Government Charles de Gaulle (1) from August 26th to September 10th, 1944
Minister of state in the Government Andre Marie from July 26th to September 5th, 1948
Public Minister for Labor, Transport and Tourism in the Government Robert Schuman (2) from September 5th to September 11th, 1948
President of the Council from September 12th, 1948 to October 28th, 1949
Vice-president of the Council in the Government Georges Bidault (2) from October 29th, 1949 to July 2nd, 1950 and Minister of Interior Department from February 7th to July 2nd, 1950
President of the Council and Minister of Interior Department from July 2nd to 12th 1950
Minister of Interior Department in Government Rene Pleven (1) from July 12th, 1950 to March 10th, 1951
Minister of state in the Government Rene Pleven (2) from August 11th, 1951 to January 20th, 1952
Vice-president of the Council and minister of state in the Government Edgar Faure (1) from January 20th to March 8th, 1952
Vice-president of the Council and minister of state in the Government Antoine Pinay from March 8th, 1952 to January 8th, 1953
Vice-president of the Council in the Government Rene Mayer from January 8th to June 28th, 1953
Vice-president of the Council in the governments Joseph Laniel from June 28th, 1953 to June 19th, 1954

Quotations

(Queuille is in the art of the aphorism in policy, the spiritual father of Edgar Faure.)

“It is not any rather urgent problem in policy which an absence of decision cannot solve. ”

Two grindings of same:

“It is not problem whose absence of solution does not end up coming to end. ”
“the policy is not art to solve the problems, but to make conceal those which pose them. ”

Begun again by Charles Pasqua:

“the promises engage only those which listen to them. ”

References

Francis de Tarr, Henri Queuille in his time (1884-1970): biography , editions of the Roundtable, 1995.

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