Word: gaullismes
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Cost of War. France did not vote for any specific philosophy or program labeled "Gaullism." Beyond the President's call to "national ambition, strength, influence," the party has no clear long-term goals-until De Gaulle himself proclaims them. De Gaulle's France has made impressive progress nonetheless. It has ended the ruinous Algerian war-though France is still pouring $2,000,000 a day into its former colony's economy and is spending even more for defense than it did at the height of war. France's 13 black African colonies have achieved orderly independence...
...Hearst papers, suggested more succinctly that Kennedy might find the old general "teeth-breaking." In the breast of the Times's James Reston lurked the hope that the U.S. President might learn a trick or two in Paris, notably the trick of reserve. Reston quoted a De Gaullism on the subject: "There can be no prestige without mystery. In the designs, the demeanor and the mental operations of a leader, there must always be a 'something' which others cannot altogether fathom." Reston's unstated conclusion: Kennedy is altogether too fathomable...
...more thoughtful and cogent analysis of steadfast and changing France has not yet been written. Aron is no brilliant apologist for any national cause, despite his former connection with Gaullism; he is St. Raymond, killer of myths, and as such extraordinarily incisive. For his explanations, he offers impressive support; it is only his optimism, as he himself confesses, which must still remain unjustified
...solidly built, wavy-haired man with blandly skeptical eyes half-hidden behind owlish glasses, Soustelle calls himself "a typical Frenchman," and in some respects looks the part. But at various times in his meteoric career this tough, confident and shrewd man has been described as "the Molotov of Gaullism," "Jacques the Wrecker," "the Big Alley Cat," "a born secret policeman," and "the most dangerous man in France." However unfair some of these epithets may be, dynamic Jacques Soustelle today at 47 has more political potential than any other Frenchman save Charles de Gaulle. It is a potential respectfully conceded even...
...side. "This impartiality obliges me to insist that my name, even in the form of an adjective, not be utilized by any group or candidate." Nevertheless, politicians of almost every stripe tumbled all over themselves to win, if not his name, at least some sort of unofficial blessing. "Gaullism," said Georges Bidault wryly, "is a cathedral, open to all, with only dogs, assassins and the plague excluded...