Word: gaullismes
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...grandeur that is Gaullism has always defied simple explanation, for it often seems that Charles de Gaulle, like the Cabots, speaks only to God. In a witty new book, The Gaullists-Ritual and Directory, French Journalist Pierre Viansson-Ponté, chief political correspondent for prestigious Le Monde, pokes skillfully at the inner Gaullist mysteries. The movement, Viansson-Ponté concludes, "consists neither of a doctrine nor of an organization, but simply of an experience lived through...
...translator at the school, the mother of six children, who was picked up at her 15-room 18th century château in a town south of Lyon. The Ecole Militaire, where Napoleon learned to soldier, is the top academy for the French military, and a hotbed of anti-Gaullism among the veterans of Algeria who think he let them down...
Neutralism and Gaullism...
This line of thought leads us to a surprising parallel between neutralism and Gaullism, though we have argued above (February 16) that they are very different. Half of the Social-Democratic International thinks that since the Cold War is not their quarrel, they should not provide shock troops for the Western monster. The Gaullists reason that the Cold War is not their quarrel, but that they should be permitted to make it so. Gaullists therefore accept the American contention that Russia is a threat which unites Western Europe to America, but they accept it on the condition that a real...
...chair at a respectful distance from the desk. A visitor is often greeted with a disconcerting "Well, sir, what have you to say to me?" De Gaulle listens attentively and will reply at length if the caller interests him; if not, he cuts the interview short with a lofty Gaullism...