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...French party leaders get together? Several generations of Frenchmen and foreigners had pettishly asked this rhetorical question. Last week, leaders of France's three major parties-who hate each other-were united in a campaign for the new constitution. But millions of Frenchmen did not like a unity they considered artificial and unprincipled...
...effect, he had asked Frenchmen to reject the coalition constitution when they vote on it next month. In effect, he had said: this assembly has failed, elect another. He had also openly repudiated the majority M.R.P., the party which had backed him until his resignation from the presidency last January. The beautiful marriage of De Gaulle and the M.R.P. seemed to have gone permanently on the rocks. But he coyly refrained from betrothing himself publicly to the growing Gaullist Union, headed by René Capitant, which had announced that it would fight the constitution, put up candidates in the next...
...Government was having other troubles, too. Some 100,000 Treasury employes had gone on strike. Amateur and professional smugglers were having a field day at uncontrolled frontiers. At the small Belgian frontier town of Menin, enterprising Frenchmen crossed and recrossed the border as much as eight times a day to bring back Belgium's plentiful cigarets, chocolate, coffee, oranges, and other commodities rare in France. Smugglers of gold, diamonds and currency sauntered across the frontier with bulging suitcases. Police refused to stop them for fear of being considered strikebreakers...
...Gaulle had emerged briefly from retirement to damn the new M.R.P. constitution as little better than the Communist-Socialist constitution which Frenchmen narrowly rejected last May. He charged that it 1) made the Cabinet subservient to the Assembly; 2) "strongly" limited the powers of the President of the Republic, giving him "no capacity to do anything in any sphere...
...history, except possibly at the court of Genghis Khan at Karakorum, has there been such a coming & going of representatives of races from all the ends of the earth. Chinese statesmen, a British archbishop, American generals, Azerbaijanian revolutionists, Indian conspirators, Mongolian ministers, Poles, Persians, Rumanians, Finns, Czechs, Germans, Frenchmen, Turks, Koreans, Australians, Canadians, Norwegians and many more have been received on this field in public panoply while the band struck up the Soviet anthem...