Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politically, the islands followed France to the left after World War II, never made the Gaullist swing back. As members of local governing councils, the islanders elect a Gallic mixture of Communists, Socialists and left-centrists. But the Communists, who control about 25% of the vote in Martinique, 40% in Guadeloupe, carefully steer clear of the expectable cries for independence. The wisdom of their caution was plainly proved last year when the islanders gave Charles de Gaulle's agree-or-get-out Fifth Republic referendum an overwhelming...
...Western statesmen did know of him was scarcely calculated to delight them. Short, stocky and black-haired, Debré has the face of an irascible chipmunk, and in the past has often sounded like one. A brilliant lawyer and civil servant before World War II, an organizer of the Gaullist Resistance during the war, Debré after the war became known in the French Senate for his scathing attacks on the leaders of the Fourth Republic, his nationalistic outbursts against European integration, and his attacks on France's British and U.S. allies. His other claim to fame...
...balloting in the first of two weeks' municipal elections in 38,000 French communities seemed to bear L'Humanité out. In France's 13 largest cities, the Communists polled 27.7% of the vote, regaining the title of France's largest party from the Gaullist Union for the New Republic, which swept last November's elections to the National Assembly. The U.N.R. polled little more than three-quarters of its previous vote...
...considerable resemblance in its party groupings to the Chamber of Deputies of the Fourth Republic. As such, the Senate will be a counterweight to the U.N.R.-dominated Assembly-a development not likely to discomfit De Gaulle, who has never wanted to see France ruled by a single, all-powerful "Gaullist" party...
...well as three shakedown organizations formerly run by the police, and in a final burst of virtue ordered nightclubs to close at midnight. There was a time not long past when Sarit closed nightclubs in another way- as the last customer. He has concentrated on a new constitution with Gaullist overtones, a new law to encourage foreign investment, and on measures to bring down the cost of living (in one month alone the index fell 12.7 points). Fortnight ago he banned all imports from Communist China. Few Thailanders seem disturbed by Sarit's end of the parliamentary regime. "Hell...