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Word: gaullist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instantly, the Assembly's spoilers reacted. They argued that the WEU bill had been amended since last week and that a new bill had to be drafted. The Foreign Affairs Committee rejected Mendes' draft. He drafted another version, carrying an amendment by Gaullist Leon Noel, onetime ambassador to Poland, to create a watchdog committee on German rearmament. That made it a new bill, the spoilers declared, and it must have a new vote of confidence, which requires 24 hours delay. Wearily, Mendes had to yield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Reluctant Yes | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...Under the pretext of Atlantic solidarity, they are asking France to take precautions against the Soviet danger before taking precautions against the German danger," cried rightist General Adolphe Aumeran. "Without our agreement Amer ica will not dare rearm Germany." Insisted Gaullist Jacques Soustelle: "Every effort to get a modus vivendi with the East must be sought first. Logic dictates it . . . an alliance with Russia is a geopolitical must for France." Complained old Paul Reynaud, the man who was Premier in 1940 when France fell: "The Paris accords give the political hegemony to England and the military hegemony to Germany." Doddering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: A Question of Confidence | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...shuttling among them, he hopes to address 200,000 people in a single afternoon. Nominally a Gaullist, Pierre Poujade disclaims political ambition but he is rapidly becoming a political force to reckon with. He affects to despise the National Assembly and all its present membership. "They closed all the brothels in France but left the biggest one open," he says scornfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Artful Tax Dodger | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...respect his tough-minded realism, and ordinary bystanders compulsively burst into applause as he passed. "The American people took M. Mendes-France to their hearts,'' said U.S. Ambassador to France Douglas Dillon, "and I can fairly state that . . . Franco-American relations have never been better." Said the Gaullist Aurore, trying its hand at a U.S. idiom: "France got back into the big league, and by the main entrance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Home Is the Hero | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...settle Tunisia's growing unrest by peaceful means. Tunisian Premier Tahar ben Amar was summoned to a delicate conference in Paris. Ben Amar could not give much ground, or he would be scorned and disowned by hotheaded compatriots. Mendes' Minister for Moroccan and Tunisian Affairs, a Gaullist named Christian Fouchet, was under heavy pressure by his fellow Gaullists to show an iron hand in North Africa. Thus, with neither man left much room for maneuvering, Fouchet and Ben Amar dickered for days, trying to find some way to end the months-long guerrilla war between Tunisian fellaghas (rebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Bottle of Aspirin | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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