Word: gaullismes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relaxed manner reserved for those far out in front, Ex-Premier Georges Pompidou last week nailed down the platform of post-De Gaullism that had won him an unexpectedly wide lead over his only remaining rival for the French presidency, Interim President Alain Poher. He announced that he would share some of his allotted television campaign with key supporters from the French political center, thereby inviting further defections from the already depleted opposition. He planned to visit six more cities across France, plainly hoping for a wide national mandate in the runoff election June 15. As if to help...
...face of what political observers labeled "Pompidoulist" strength, however, Poher showed no inclination to retire from French politics as quickly -or as quietly-as he entered. "I became a candidate in the first place to avoid a confrontation between Gaullism and Communism, and I succeeded because I came in second," he explained. What is more, he intended to step up the fight, abandoning his earlier tactic of campaigning only by TV and press conference in favor of a jetliner tour of twelve cities in five days. His determination remained in spite of editorials in the prestigious Le Monde...
...unknown such as myself had the audacity to enter the presidential race" and read on television one of the fan letters he had received urging him to run ("You have brought us reason to be courageous and hopeful"). Poher offered a platform that was the antithesis of Gaullism. He promised to do away with "prestige projects" and suggested that France could not afford De Gaulle's vaunted force de frappe. He also pledged a "profound change" in foreign policy, and to work for a united Europe for the "future of our youth." In domestic affairs, Poher offered "draconian economic...
...Pompidou-an extraordinary result in light of the fact that Poher has no party backing his candidacy and has only become widely known in recent weeks. Poher also repeated his attack on the government-run TV network, which has long and one-sidedly sung the praises of Gaullism. Said Poher: "This daily and insidious propaganda does not bring out the objective truth and reassure citizens." He promised, if elected, to see to it that the network was more evenhanded. The criticism nettled the Gaullist Cabinet of Premier Maurice Couve de Murville. The Gaullists let it be known that "perhaps...
...Frenchmen should "grant General de Gaulle the 'blank cheque' that he is demanding." Le Monde seemed to think that they should not. The next week, the paper accepted the results as more or less foreordained, dissected the non vote and analyzed M. Pompidou's bid for "Gaullism without De Gaulle...