Word: gaullismes
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...could form a government? President Vincent Auriol asked 75-year-old Socialist Léon Blum to try. But M. Blum, it seemed, was living in an old man's dream-the dream of a troisième force (third force) which would hold the democratic bastions against Gaullism and Communism alike. In his request to the Assembly for a vote of confidence, Léon Blum antagonized the growing nucleus of De Gaulle adherents. He missed his majority by nine votes...
...boned man with the pursed mouth and the melancholy eyes the Provisional Premier-President of what he calls the Fourth Republic. The Committee became a Cabinet, the Assembly a sort of Chamber of Deputies-though without the power to legislate: the Assembly could only advise. The symbolic power of Gaullism had triumphed over the doubts and fears of the U.S., of Britain, of a vocal minority of Frenchmen...
Frenchmen and the Future. In any event, Britons and Americans only fool themselves if they assume that they and the Frenchmen of France will necessarily judge Gaullism's deeds and plans in the same way. France, for example, does not forget the decadence of her "free" (and freely bought) prewar press, the wartime sins of the Vichy press. Nor has she forgotten the rot in the frame of her prewar democracy...
...brand new one to London and the State Department. The rumored Roosevelt suggestion: When the U.S. and Britain invade France, let General Eisenhower make expedient little side deals with whatever French group or groups happen to be most handy. The underground organizations which have risked their necks for Gaullism may or may not be called upon to help put France back on her feet after the Germans are driven out. That will be up to the military to decide...
Radio Commentator Jacques Bartaud moaned: "A wave of depression is sweeping France [causing] a very grave national neurosis. From this state of mind to Gaullism is only one step...