Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think is essential if the old chaos is not to follow the demise of Gaullism in France. In the wake of Defferre's failure, it was symptomatic that Paris was talking about the possible candidature of onetime Premier Antoine Pinay. Pinay would appeal to the pro-Atlantic, anti-Gaullist conservative vote. But he is also the very symbol of prewar, smalltown, middle-class Catholic France-and he is, at 73, only 13 months younger than Charles de Gaulle himself...
...setting could scarcely have been better for his purposes: four Western departments (Vendée, Maine-et-Loire, Mayenne and Sarthe), all warmly Gaullist, all heavily Catholic, all refreshingly rural. Sun and showers alternately splashed the meadows as the presidential cortege-a mile-long column of black limousines punctuated by thundering motorcycles-struck sonorously past ranks of poplars and blue-legged gendarmes. In village after village, De Gaulle repeated the tried and true routine: a ritual exchange with the awed mayor, a Lyndon-like lunge into the thicket of outstretched hands, a brief utterance from the bunting-draped platform, then...
...International School of Brussels, U.S. executives of Ford, I.T.T., Monsanto and Upjohn got a grilling from the students: "Why are Germany's gold reserves going down when its economy is booming?" "What marketing research have you done in Europe on oral contraceptives?" In Paris, the Americans met Gaullist students to discuss the mysteries of the world's teen-agers and the mystique of Charles de Gaulle...
...initiative on reuniting Germany. Even a routine statement hailing reunification as an admirable goal bogged down in petty quibbling. France insisted on phrases making reunification necessary not only to Germany, "but in the interests of all the peoples of Europe," thus coming too close for U.S. comfort to Gaullist overtures to the Communist satellites to share in his self-sufficient Europe...
...Gaulle has even managed to estrange his most ardent followers in West Germany, including such a strong German "Gaullist" as Bavarian Boss Franz Josef Strauss. Fortnight ago, De Gaulle with great fanfare entertained Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At the end of the visit, Gromyko professed to be delighted to discover that the French accepted the existence of two Germanys. Though the French mumbled a denial later, the Germans were unconvinced-and an angry Strauss expostulated that "he who today renounces Breslau and Stettin will renounce Leipzig and Magdeburg tomorrow, and quite certainly Berlin the day after tomorrow...