Word: gaullism
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...Very interesting," remarked François Mitterrand of his opponent's statistics when his turn came on television, "but unfortunately, not exact." Mitterrand made plain his own unequivocal support for the Atlantic Alliance and a truly united political Europe. "It is sad to note," he observed, "how much Gaullism has come to resemble Vichy, with a monarch and a little court." De Gaulle was like Madame du Barry before the guillotine, he said, pleading "Just another moment, just another moment, Mr. Executioner." The force de frappe? "De Gaulle's diplomatic toy, about as effective for France...
Premier Georges Pompidou thereupon summoned good Gaullists everywhere to "general mobilization" on le general's behalf in the Dec. 19 presidential run off. "It must be demonstrated," exhort ed a perturbed Pompidou, "that in the face of the dazzling demagoguery of the opposition, Gaullism, too, can open paths to the future." Premier Pompidou then conjured up some sample rewards in the Gaullist future straight out of the American past: a car and a television set for each and every French family...
...simply himself "or confusion." He would not even consider stooping to public appearances or speeches. But while he kept a haughty silence, his opposition campaigned all over France. It was a heady new wine for a richly political people parched for politics for the past seven years under monolithic Gaullism...
...candidate of the Republic" instead of "the candidate of the left," hoping to collect some of Lecanuet's centrist bloc of votes. Lecanuet, eliminated but suddenly a national figure, has announced the formation of a new "democratic center" party, which might well provide some day the apres-Gaullism alternative...
...back in China as guest of the Red leaders who achieved the revolution Malraux worked for as a young man. Too individualistic ever to join the party, Malraux's own disillusion with Communism came with the Nazi-Soviet pact, and he has since embraced a narrower creed: Gaullism...