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Into the Socialist fold had come impressive numbers from the bourgeoisie. These most conservative of Frenchmen were fleeing the extremes of the Communist Left and of the ultrareactionary Right...
...national election day (Oct. 21), Frenchmen also will vote whether 1) to draft a new constitution, 2) to leave General de Gaulle in power in the interim. Some Frenchmen who oppose De Gaulle, whom the leftist Franc-Tireur recently cartooned as holding the "Apple of Discord" (see cut), are for a new constitution. In any case, if France votes as she did last week, General de Gaulle will remain at the head of the Government, supported by Bidault and Blum. Maurice Thorez' Communists and Edouard Herriot's Radical Socialists (who are neither radical nor socialist) will...
...Frenchmen and Frenchwomen," declaimed Charles de Gaulle on the 75th anniversary of the Third Republic, "you will soon launch the Fourth Republic!" The General's words opened an electoral campaign whose outcome may well rank in significance with Labor's sweeping victory in Britain...
Cried Léon Jouhaux's C.G.T.: De Gaulle's action was "authoritarian." Then, setting what might well be the leftist electoral line, it called on Frenchmen and Frenchwomen to vote "no" to the second question in the referendum...
Last week Frenchmen got a grim report of progress in dealing with them. By last month's end, only one-tenth had been removed (by French workmen and German prisoners of war trained by U.S. sappers). The dangerous job would not be finished before...