Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...French people, who are overwhelmingly in support of Israel, were outraged at De Gaulle's cynicism. And they made their displeasure known. Even the usually Gaullist daily, Paris Presse, reported that De Gaulle was being accused of "an acute attack of visceral anti-Americanism, megalomania, soliciting of Arab customers, and sabotage of the Johnson-Kosygin meeting." The editors' conclusion: "Not everything is wrong in these explanations...
...most of it in P.L. 480 food surpluses and low-interest loans. Out of the ashes of World War II, the nations of Western Europe have forged not only a Common Market but also a sense of common interest that, for all the disruptions and distractions caused today by Gaullist France, may be destined to achieve the economic force and political cohesiveness that-thanks to envy and enmity-have eluded the Continent since the birth of time. If a United States of Europe emerges in the future, its conception may well be traced to the United States of America...
...French industry will have to face increased competition, and it is believed ill equipped to hold its own. De Gaulle's bills aim at tightening up industry and encouraging mergers, also include profit-sharing provisions for workers. As important as these economic reforms is the Gaullist intent to force center groups sandwiched between the Gaullists and the left in the National Assembly either to make common cause with the Gaullists, or take the blame for defeating the government bill and thus risk new elections...
Ominous Sign. "Before, the majority was asked only to ratify; now it is asked to abdicate," said Jean Lecanuet, the head of the Centre Démocrate Party and a leading center politician. He was expressing widespread bitterness at what many non-Gaullists consider a maneuver to counteract the larger-than-ever showing of a.nti-Gaullist sentiment at the polling booths two months ago. An ominous sign came by week's end when one of the general's faithful lieutenants, hulking Edgar Pisani, 48, Minister of Public Works and Housing and a Cabinet member since 1961, resigned...
...that the international money plan would be a mere device to help Britain and the U.S. dodge the consequences of their persistent balance-of-payments deficits. Two weeks ago at Munich, to the consternation of U.S. officials, the French swung the other Common Market Finance Ministers to the restrictive Gaullist recipe for monetary reform: larger credit facilities through the IMF. To achieve that, France merely dropped its two-year opposition to devising any contingency plans at all and its generally unpopular demand to study whether the price of gold should be raised. Comparing the Six's action to Britain...