Word: gaullism
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What happened to Gaullism? Pompidou has been trying to prove to his countrymen not only that they never had it so good, but also that the best is yet to come. A soon-to-be-released study commissioned by the Elysée Palace two years ago limns an intoxicating future. France's robust 6% rate of growth will continue, argues the report by the European branch of Futurologist Herman Kahn's Hudson Institute, meaning that by 1985 the country could well capture West Germany's place as the world's fourth strongest economic power (after...
...until last month Minister of Industrial and Scientific Development in President Georges Pompidou's Cabinet. Sir Christopher Soames, the probable British commission member, has reportedly threatened not to serve unless a Frenchman of "stature" is selected. What the British really object to, however, is Ortoli's unswerving Gaullism...
...Yvelines. Couve, gamely making the rounds of shopkeepers, stressed the need for De Gaulle's worker "participation" program. After the first round of voting, Rocard was barely in second place, 5,109 votes behind Couve. But in the runoff, centrist and leftist candidates, united only by their anti-Gaullism, lined up behind Rocard. He trounced Couve...
...appease Gaullist hard-liners in the National Assembly while satisfying non-Gaullists' expectations of an authentic new look. The litmus was the fate of the general's Foreign Minister, Michel Debre, an unbending and abrasive loyalist and to both sides a symbol of extreme Gaullism. Pompidou persuaded him to accept the prestigious but politically insensitive Ministry of Defense. Then the President put together a Cabinet to his own taste, composed of twelve Gaullists and seven members of the independent right and center parties. It faithfully reflects Pompidou's desire for a more moderate foreign policy, fiscal restraint...
...period, when De Gaulle was out of power. Other Gaullists remember those years as "the crossing of the desert," but Chaban-Delmas served without qualm in the governments of Pierre Mendeè-France, Guy Mollet and Félix Gaillard. In recent months his independence emboldened him to define Gaullism in terms that echoed those of Pompidou: "Being a Gaullist means believing that the policies followed by De Gaulle have been, on the whole, good. This does not automatically mean that Gaullists believe that all of his policies are necessarily excellent. There are degrees in Gaullism...