Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there was one thing that De Gaulle most emphatically was not bringing with him: francs. There would be no offers of cash aid or loans. The basic purpose of the trip was not to buy Latin affection, Gaullist sources insisted, but rather to "reactivate and reinvigorate" French relations in South America, which withered with France's decline as an international power during and after World War II. De Gaulle was clearly avoiding direct conflict with U.S. influence in Latin America, but he was not forgoing the chance to preach his favorite sermon of renewed nationalism. "I will simply employ...
...flirt with the French government. Charles de Gaulle is convinced that the Soviet bloc is crumbling under the pressure of traditional nationalisms, thus opening opportunities for the spread of French influence. De Gaulle himself granted Maurer an hour-long audience in which he turned on that rarely seen Gaullist charm. As Maurer emerged, newsmen asked him if le grand Charles had been in good form. The Rumanian, who speaks fluent if Italian-sounding French, rolled his eyes to the ceiling and said: "Et comment...
...clincher for the Gaullist plans was to come last week. The Munich convention of Strauss's Christian Social Union, the Bavarian affiliate of the C.D.U., was to issue a call for a drastic reorientation of West Germany's foreign policy. The shift was to be formally adopted at a meeting in Bonn of the Gaullist-packed C.D.U. directorate, under Adenauer's chairmanship...
...Despite dark suspicions that "certain professors are intimidated by my name," he nevertheless flunked Latin, pulled through on the strength of his French and history, which surprised few of his fellow students, among whom he is already famous for his imitations of Grandpa. "I am a Gaullist," he explains, grandly. "But if I were in Grandfather's place, I would be much more intransigent...
Right now, Rumania is being the most "Gaullist" in its efforts to set a na tional course of its own. After signing a trade agreement with the U.S., Bucharest sent representatives to Geneva last week, inquiring about the possibility of membership not only in the West-sponsored GATT trade organization but in Washington's World Bank and International Monetary Fund as well. Reportedly the Hungarians and Bulgarians put out similar feelers. In Geneva, two Rumanian envoys made contact with Common Market bureaucrats, but dropped a scheduled "working lunch" when word leaked out prematurely...