Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very magnitude of the Gaullist election victory made many Frenchmen apprehensive. "La mariee est trop belle (The bride is too beautiful)," mused one television commentator, meaning that so decisive a victory placed on the Gaullists an inescapable and unparalleled burden for France's future. "The Gaullist tank is more powerful than ever, but it no longer has any brakes," warned Temoignage Chretien (Christian Witness), a liberal Catholic weekly. "What a temptation for the driver to roll right over any opposition...
...renewed Gaullist regime looked disturbingly similar to the one that had been so badly shaken by the May riots. In foreign affairs, for example, no shifts in policy and no mitigation of Gaullist diplomatic arrogance are in sight. In fact, under the chauvinistic new Foreign Minister Michel Debre, French abrasiveness may well increase. The chances for Britain to get into the Common Market are as remote as ever. Nor is there any likelihood that France will heed the plea of Common Market President Jean Rey to abandon the right to veto major proposals and to give the Market...
...fate," French Premier Georges Pompidou once said, "is to be President of the Republic -or leader of the opposition." If last week's election results could not quite guarantee Pompidou his first choice, they certainly lessened his chances of ever having to settle for the second. The Gaullist sweep among France's voters-and the turn of events that led to it-have clearly made Pompidou the President's indispensable second-in-command and undisputed heir apparent. "My signature," De Gaulle calls him, and now that seems to carry the imprimatur of succession...
...rare tribute from Charles de Gaulle, but deserved. A professor of literature until World War II, Pompidou has spent 24 years as a Gaullist friend and confidant, an adviser in De Gaulle's political triumphs, the editor of his memoirs. In the same years, and with little preparation for any of them, he pursued three remarkably successful careers. Without ever having studied law, he turned in a first-rate jurist's performance when assigned to an administrative court in De Gaulle's postwar government. Without ever having trained as a banker, he attracted the attention...
...jobs, the students still held out in the Sorbonne. Now that stronghold, too, has fallen to the cops, elections have been held, and France is at least temporarily back to normal. But the students' rebellion will long be remembered in France and elsewhere. Their grievances, with which the Gaullist Government will have to deal, are of special interest to American students. On the surface, their complaints are similar. At both Columbia and the Sorbonne, demonstrators demanded curriculums more consonant with the times, a larger role in university affairs, and the demolition of those invisible walls that convert a university...