Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although de Gualle is condemned by Hoffmann and Goguel for a political style that discourages party reform, the recent French elections would seem to be proof that the General has had a different effect on the party system. Gaullist forces won an absolute majority in the Assembly, thus indicating to some observers that French politics may evolve into a more nearly two-party system. Some traditional parties, such as the Independents and Peasants' Party, have lost much of their following as French public opinion has become Left and the Gaullist Right...
...because the ideas behind it are strange and little understood. The American press has therefore been forced to concoct a whole series of improbable explanations (February 16) for what de Gaulle has done. The present article is a small attempt to account for de Gaulle's recent actions in Gaullist terms...
When the Common Market was formed, Britain refused a charter membership, because she preferred to base her policies on the "special relationship" with the United States. But the "special relationship" is the antithesis of Gaullist Europe. "What concerns us," said the French Foreign Minister at Brussels, "is not whether the Europe we are trying to create is big or small, but whether it is European." "European," in this sense, means "Gaullist," which means independent of the United States...
...indeed is the plight if the American Gaullist. You and I and Secretary McNamara alike have all been deprived of our New York Times; and that is horrible enough. But for anyone who does not believe that Charles de Gaulle is some diabolical combination of Louis Napoleon and Bertrand Russell, breakfast reading of late has been an experience verging on the traumatic...
...Gaullist plows through 18 pages of violent crime in the Boston Herald, searching for some comforting words by C. L. Sulzberger, and finds instead James Reston's notice that God (Reston has a pipeline) is getting jealous of de Gaulle's pretensions...