Word: frenchmens
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...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...
...overthrow De Gaulle, dictatorial power then devolving on them." But there was little doubt that De Gaulle, as usual, would have his way. In three previous referendums-the latest concerned his formula for the Algerian peace agreement-he never failed to pull in less than 70% of all Frenchmen who voted. To ensure that his administration presents a solid front, De Gaulle last week reshuffled his Cabinet to make it more strongly Gaullist, elevated Christian Fouchet, an outspokenly honest official who served with distinction as chairman of the Common Market's committee on political unity, to the post...
...case, both French law and the reciprocal trade agreement between France and the U.S. bar him from doing much to curtail U.S. investment. But his anger rejected a failure on the part of G.M. and Remington to remember that they were operating in France-not the U.S. To Frenchmen, as to many Europeans, ousting a man from his job is almost as serious as exiling him from his country. What really exercised Bokanowski was that G.M. and Remington had not warned him well in advance that they were contemplating such drastic action-which perhaps would have enabled him to step...
...German could never bridge their temperamental differences-let alone lay foundations for Europe's closest economic, political and military entente. In 1934, while a captain attached to the Defense Ministry, De Gaulle wrote a slim volum, The Army of the Future, which mirrored the conviction of most Frenchmen that the traditional hostility between France and Germany was "in the nature of things." The border between the two countries, wrote De Gaulle, "is an open wound; the wind that sweeps it is laden with ulterior motives...