Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bulb-Nosed Hero. Some five months after Tycoon Walter's death, opportunity presented itself to a small restaurant owner in Cap d'Antibes. He was Camille Rayon, a tough, bulb-nosed ex-paratrooper. Resistance hero and fanatical Gaullist. Rayon was approached by a general's aide who begged his help in disposing of a salopard (louse) who "compromises the great national work." Who was the salopard? Answer: Paulo Guillaume, now 22, and concluding his military service in Algeria...
...heady moments last week the Deputies of Gaullist France almost succeeded in recreating the wrangling course of the Fourth Republic. "The representatives of the working class have been arbitrarily reduced," bawled Communist Waldeck Rochet. "We are only ten Deputies for 4,000,000 voters." From somewhere in the rear of the great half-shell that houses the National Assembly, a voice shouted back: "That's ten too many." A right-wing Deputy's ironic reference to "how times have changed" brought Premier Michel Debre himself to his feet. "One thing has not changed," roared the testy Debre...
...expected better of the general." snapped a longtime Parisian Gaullist last week. "The least we can say is that we are surprised and hurt," wailed the National Federation of Veteran Prisoners of War. Charles de Gaulle, by his actions last week, dramatically refuted those critics who say that he uses high-sounding rhetoric to avoid taking unpopular action...
Debré, the able lawyer chiefly responsible for writing the constitution of De Gaulle's Fifth Republic, is known in Gaullist circles as "the most faithful of the faithful." A practising Roman Catholic of partly Jewish ancestry, Debre has been a Gaullist since he escaped from a World War II Nazi prison camp to join the French Resistance. Mildness is not his style. Under the Fourth Republic, his ferocious attacks on the old parliamentary system both in France's Senate and in his weekly Messenger of Anger won him the nickname...
Immediately after historic inauguration ceremonies, De Gaulle set the new republic in motion. He named as premier Michel Debre, Gaullist lawyer and an unbending nationalist...