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...emphasis on unity in De Gaulle's conception of the State is also present in his attitudes toward domestic policy. De Gaulle is-probably unique among 43 million Frenchmen in he has no domestic ax to grind. only abiding concern is that domestic policy preserve social harmony while contributing to economic strength-both prerequisites for Great power status...
...manifesto, published two months ago, affirmed the right of Frenchmen to refuse to cooperate in the prosecution of the six-year-old war in Algeria. Among the signers of the manifesto were Jean Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Francois Sagan, and Florence Malraux, daughter of author Andre Malraux, who is Minister of Culture under de Gaulie...
Withdrawal from Black Africa was not nearly so difficult as withdrawal from Algeria seems likely to be. The Governments of the Fourth Republic, especially that of Mendes-France, had been able to let Morocco and Tunisia slip easily into independence. Yet one and one-half million Frenchmen, paying as much taxes as nine million Moslems, had not lived in Morocco or Tunisia for three generations. All that the liberations of Mendes-France accomplished for Algeria was to strengthen the resistance of the colons to autonomy for what they consider their country...
...France to negotiate peace; the right calls for war in Algeria to the bitter end. President Charles de Gaulle's vague proposal for an "Algerian Algeria" irritates both left and right, the Europeans in Algeria because it promises too much, the Moslem because it promises too little, and Frenchmen in general because it hasn't solved anything...
...indeed a sorry situation in which the Gaulist movement finds itself. The rightist army has already attempted twice to seize power, and Frenchmen must live in constant peril of a third attempt. On the left, the intellectuals and union leaders, both Catholic and Communist are calling for opposition to the government's war effort. In attempting to solidify his power, De Gaulle has unfortunately equated dissent with treason, and this seems desperate and futile...