Word: gaullism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solidly built, wavy-haired man with blandly skeptical eyes half-hidden behind owlish glasses, Soustelle calls himself "a typical Frenchman," and in some respects looks the part. But at various times in his meteoric career this tough, confident and shrewd man has been described as "the Molotov of Gaullism," "Jacques the Wrecker," "the Big Alley Cat," "a born secret policeman," and "the most dangerous man in France." However unfair some of these epithets may be, dynamic Jacques Soustelle today at 47 has more political potential than any other Frenchman save Charles de Gaulle. It is a potential respectfully conceded even...
...side. "This impartiality obliges me to insist that my name, even in the form of an adjective, not be utilized by any group or candidate." Nevertheless, politicians of almost every stripe tumbled all over themselves to win, if not his name, at least some sort of unofficial blessing. "Gaullism," said Georges Bidault wryly, "is a cathedral, open to all, with only dogs, assassins and the plague excluded...
...election did not indicate a swing of opinion; it only revealed the reality of the French political complexion-a reality that had been successfully concealed for nearly five years by the elaborate electoral system of "alliances" that the French had devised in 1951 to defeat the extremes of Gaullism and Communism. This time the cen ter was so divided that alliances became impossible...
...Gaullist Adventure. Many of his admirers could not understand why the former Communist sympathizer turned to Gaullism, overleaping all the moderate positions in between. Many put it down to a Malrauvian need for heroes. Malraux himself insists: "It is not I who have changed, but events...
...Martinaud-Déplat took the rostrum to answer. "The passion which has been expressed here, the hate on certain faces," he cried, "is plain for all to see." He sneered at the "new left," which. he said, goes from sectarianism to collectivism, with a whiff of Gaullism. Some of his speech could hardly be heard over a chorus of whistles, groans, boos and shouts of "Resign, resign...