Word: gaullist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle has responded with admirable alacrity to this challenge. Yesterday's New York Times reported plans for a regular party organization, to "put the Gaullist stamp of approval" on candidates of other major parties who are willing, not to put too fine a point on it, to sell out to de Gaulle. The organization will be run by de Gaulle's own Larry O'Brien, Andre Malraux. The remarks of Malraux to the press indicate no weakening of Gaullist disdain for France's party system: "If," he said in part, "in 1940, in 1958 (and a few times since...
...argosy of gaullismes was enriched this week with publication of The Words of the General (Fayard, Paris), a treasury of De Gaulle's most revealing epigrams and acerb asides that has been pseudonymously compiled by the aide to a long time Gaullist official. While some of his ban mots may have grown bonnier in telling, and others may be wholly apocryphal, who can say for sure? Who, that is, but The General...
...Politics. Some of De Gaulle's keener barbs have been aimed at the politicians who resisted his return to power in 1958. "Since a politician never believes what he says," he once mused, "he is absolutely nonplussed when he is taken at his word." At a Gaullist rally in 1956, an orator demanded death for the leaders of the Fourth Republic, repeating for De Gaulle's benefit: "Mon general, we must kill all those asses." Nodded De Gaulle: "A vast program.'' After his election, when the President decided to fire some balky Cabinet ministers, Premier Michel...
...Gaulle is convinced that his "national imprint" raises him above politics. When his Gaullist U.N.R. party was organized in 1958, he was asked whether it should be a party of the right, center or left. Declared the general: "De Gaulle is not of the left. Nor of the right. Nor of the center. De Gaulle is above " After the 1962 referendum on the Algerian peace agreement, an aide ran to the Elysee Palace to tell the President that he had won a staggering 90% majority. De Gaulle pondered the news, then leaped to his feet. "This country," he thundered...
...Without mentioning what was then the most closely guarded of Gaullist secrets: the fact that his maternal great-great-grandfather was born in Germany. De Gaulle's Teutonic ancestor was Ludwig Phillip Kolb, a barber-surgeon in Napoleon's army, who was born in Grotzingen in 1761 and fell to British bullets at Waterloo...