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Giscard sees inflation, currently running at about 15%, as the key threat. Polls show, however, that most Frenchmen worry more about job security. The President has argued that giving in to the strikers-the postal workers are demanding across-the-board wage increases of about $43 a month-would amount to capitulation in the struggle to control inflation. Millions of Frenchmen fear that allowing the strikes to continue could lead to a slump and inevitable layoffs...
...power, dominated French politics, the myths of the Resistance he broadcast from London, Brazzaville and other centers of the Free French during the war--myths that seemed substantiated by the victory of his allies, myths that were hammered into the minds of a new generation of Frenchmen during a decade of personal rule in the sixties--all remained unchallenged. Nearly all Frenchmen, de Gaulle maintained, played their part in the Resistance, with moral support if not active aid. Only a few collaborators had betrayed the nation, and they had been punished after the war. Once the vast majority...
...inflation rate. France is no longer the nation of the 1930s when the Popular Front government of Communists and Socialists stood for economic equality. Now French popular government means either Gaullists or centrists who celebrate the French past rather than work to spread the wealth more equitably among Frenchmen. Britain is no longer the country where a nationwide strike in 1926 shut industry down for months in a move to force employers to grant workers a more equitable share of the nation's wealth. Today's Labour leaders are matched only by the heads of the Conservative Party in calls...
...Some influential Frenchmen seem to feel that Europe is dead. What is your opinion...
...opinion and on the other, they have to avoid appearing as leaders. There are many people in the world who do not like to be led, at least who do not like this to be shown. I think that this is at the core of many resentments involving Frenchmen and Americans over the past two decades...