Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mollet's proposal was immediately trumpeted across France by the right-wing press and the government's unabashedly partisan TV and radio network, which reminded Frenchmen of the unsavory Socialist -Communist -Radical "Popular Front" government that unforgettably permitted Hitler to reoccupy the Rhineland in 1936. Backing away from Mollet's blunder, Socialist Party strategists in such strongholds as Marseille refused to make any deals with the Communists. In dozens of constituencies, including Mollet's, Communist candidates who scored heavily in the election's first round did in fact withdraw in favor of Socialists and other...
...Europe at prices below cost of production. In Bavaria and Westphalia, protectionist German farmers' associations stormed that U.S. chickens are artificially fattened with arsenic and should be banned. The French government did ban U.S. chickens, using the excuse that they are fattened with estrogen. With typical Gallic concern, Frenchmen hinted that such hormones could have catastrophic effects on male virility...
...appearing on TV, interspersed with performances by singers, dancers, even a blonde stripper, it became clear that the nation's approval was not exactly massive. De Gaulle got 62% of the 21 million votes cast, and journalists promptly dubbed him "Monsieur 62%." But more than 6,000,000 Frenchmen abstained, so that he gained only 46% of the total electorate. Many voters failed to vote partly because they were bored with referendums (it was the fourth since 1958), partly because they assumed De Gaulle would win anyway, hence that it was safe to spend the sunny weekend away from...
...strengthens De Gaulle's hand in the forthcoming referendum and elections. To political opponents who have criticized him for putting NATO in disarray, De Gaulle can now answer that if the U.S. were really quarreling with France, it would not be selling her a nuclear-powered sub. To Frenchmen and other Europeans who have opposed de Gaulle's independent nuclear force, he can cite the Nautilus sale as proof that even the U.S. accepts France as a nuclear power...
...nationwide address announced his plans for a strengthened presidential system by which his successor would be elected directly by the people (TIME, Sept. 21). Though De Gaulle's proposal would short-circuit the constitution and has already enraged politicians of all parties, his grandiloquent dialogue between "you Frenchmen and Frenchwomen and my self" only heightened the curious blend of awe, irritation and amusement with which most Frenchmen today regard their President. Through endless anecdotes, his mordant wit and sovereign self-assurance have become as firmly lodged in the French imagination as Cyrano's nose...