Word: gaullismes
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Pompidou's successor, whoever he is, may find it hard to restore the exuberant French self-confidence that was one of the great Gaullist legacies. Unless next month's elections deliver a resounding vote of confidence in Gaullism, the operative fact in European affairs is not likely to be France's willful independence but its weakness...
...Chief European Correspondent William Rademaekers. "Yet it is clear that France's 31 million voters will decide the course of their country and of the Common Market for the remainder of this decade and beyond. The ultimate choice facing them will be between the 'continuity' of Gaullism or a break from it." A Socialist-Communist victory would bring Communists into a West European Cabinet for the first time since the beginning of the cold...
That could lead to sweeping social changes in France, including adoption of a soak-the-rich taxation policy, and to a foreign policy cooler to the U.S. and NATO than even that of the Gaullists. The victory of a candidate representing a path between Gaullism and the left, as Faure or Giscard might, would mean French support for greater integration of the European Economic Community and closer relations with the U.S. Not until Frenchmen cast their ballots, however, can the question posed last week by Le Monde be answered: "Is this the second death of Gaullism...
...Georges Pompidou, the president of France. Reactionary Gaullism without de Gaulle continues under Pompidou, the general's successor and former right hand man. The rumblings of worker and student discontent which erupted in May 1968 were heard again last spring, sparking hopes that revolution in advanced nations may eventually become a reality...
...which in appearance only is an "offensive de charme.' " West Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung raised what may prove to be the central issue. The U.S. had posed all the important questions, it said, "but which Europe will give it the answer? Pompidou's fading neo-Gaullism? Brandt, suspended between Atlantic loyalty and necessity and the temptation of the opening to the East? Italy, shaken by internal crises?" Herbert Wehner, the Social Democratic floor leader in the Bundestag and one of Brandt's closest advisers, was even more skeptical. "I don't think even Kissinger...