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Arrest That Minister! Next day, De Gaulle ordered that an "international warrant" be issued for the arrest of Oufkir and two of his aides. He hardly expected King Hassan to yield up his own Interior Minister to the French courts, but privately he conveyed to Hassan that the Elysé...
Le grand Charles was taking a lesson from the humiliating electoral experiences of last December. Well aware that the next elections, due some time before March 1967, may well cost his U.N.R. party its control of the National Assembly, he reshuffled ministers in a pattern carefully calculated to win back...
That was Charles de Gaulle fighting for his political life on French television last week, apologizing for the views that for seven years he was wont to deliver from his haughty isolation in the Elysée. Instead, a fascinated France saw a new De Gaulle, submitting night after night...
To old Elysée hands, De Gaulle himself looked sunken-eyed and tired, and atypically muffed some of the lines in his carefully memorized discourse. But as usual, le grand Charles contrived to have the last laugh. "Personal power?" he asked at conference's end, challenging critics who...
Even before he arrived, in fact, De Gaulle contrived to show his disdain for Erhard's hopes for a united Europe and slap the German's warm support for the U.S. in Viet Nam. "We do not want a supranational Europe," sniffed De Gaulle at the annual Elys...