Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their latest constitution--open a new episode in France's political development. It is as yet too early to analyze the meaning of the voting pattern; below, Mr. Hoffman, Henry LaBarre Jayne Assistant Professor of Government, discusses the principles, provisions and prospects of the Charter on which the Fifth French Republic will be based...
Will de Gaulle's Constitution, the twelfth since 1789 by my count, succeed in giving to the Fifth Republic a longer and better life than the four previous ones enjoyed...
...country where history often repeats itself because its citizens react, like Pavlov's dogs, to bells rung by historical parallels, the Presidency of the Fifth Republic might well travel the same road as the Presidency of the Third...
...Communists. The Socialists had been the last to fall in line when their party congress voted 2,786 to 1,176 in favor of out. The Roman Catholic Church issued a proclamation advising the faithful that they could vote for the new constitution even though it declared the Fifth Republic to be secular. Only a few voices were still raised against De Gaulle. Though his own Radical Socialists had refused to back him, Pierre Mendes-France stubbornly insisted that to vote oui was to vote for dictatorship and the end of parliamentary government. In L'Express. Writer-Philosopher Jean...
...Cautious Heart is British Novelist Sansom's fifth novel (among the others: The Loving Eye). It is sage, funny, benign and stamped with Sansom's special mastery of situations in which sex, humor and sympathy fight for supremacy in a human battle that never ends...