Word: gaullismes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other parties struggled desperately to carve out a middle position between Gaullists and Communists. Warning that a return to Gaullism would lead only to another crisis, Francois Mitterrand, leader of the non-Communist Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left, declared that only his party "offered a third road-a new alliance between socialism and liberty." In the rural areas, the federation has lost the support of many of its backers because it is linked in an electoral alliance with the Communists. In a jet-hopping tour across France, Centrist Leader Jacques Duhamel pleaded: "Let us not break France...
...Fourth Republic Premier who fled the country in 1962 after being implicated in an O.A.S. plot to overthrow De Gaulle. Bidault, an extreme rightist, seemed unlikely to play a major role in the elections, but he indicated his willingness to stand for office and aimed withering criticism at Gaullism ("What is Gaullism without De Gaulle if it is not stew without a rabbit...
...Belt came the muscle that nearly overturned De Gaulle; what the students began, only the French workers ever had any chance of finishing. On the surface, the cry for "worker power" seemed an unnecessary and ungrateful response to the Fifth Republic. In the decade of Gaullism, France's workers, particularly the skilled ones who earn an average $195 each month, have enthusiastically entered the consumer economy. Fully 70% of all workers' households have a refrigerator, a washing machine and a vacuum cleaner. Though only 46% of all French families own TV sets, at least...
...have probably loosed all the diverse special interests and political frustrations bottled up for a decade. Unions, now that they have learned their strength, are likely to go on wresting both managerial prerogatives and higher pay from the patronat?the owners?whose power has remained fairly unchallenged under Gaullism. But there is also likely to be a backlash from the conservative elements in the population ?the petits bourgeois, the landlords, the little businessmen?against the radical forces that demand swift changes. In this confrontation, the radical students themselves are likely to be targets of a sharp reaction, perhaps even...
...keep the franc invulnerable. The nation's growth rate, which had climbed above 7% in the early 1960s, last year sank to about 3.5%. Consumer prices have shot up 39% since 1958 v. only 18% for the U.S. For a while, the workers shared in the fruits of Gaullism, and many bought their first small cars and TVs. But the costs of De Gaulle's global policies mounted. The force de frappe alone, a dubious deterrent, required more than $2 billion a year. Not enough was left for the workers, whose wages lagged behind those in every other Common Market...