Word: facism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This attitude, and of course the inability of the Government to get a majority in the Assembly, brought de Gaulle to power in 1958 on many respectable and some very disreputable coattails. "We prefer facism to the independence of Algeria," writes Aron of the position of the "Ultras" and adds in a revealing comment, "but the man to whom they have given absolute power has the soul of a paternal monarch or of a princo-president, not of a tyrant...