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...French political life. Eased out of office by President Charles de Gaulle in 1962 and replaced by Georges Pompidou, Debré had seemed permanently relegated to the shadows last November when he ran as a candidate for the National Assembly in a supposedly safe constituency and, despite a Gaullist landslide, was soundly beaten by a local garage owner. But Debré was determined to try again, even though he had to travel 6,000 miles to French-owned Réunion Island, a tiny volcanic rock in the Indian Ocean, where a by-election offered another opportunity...
...Fulbrigt's analysis the Gaullist design, though "bold and even creative in tactics," has objectives that are "profoundly conservative." He described the Gaullist program as an attempt to restore the "classical balance -of-power system," a "precarious equilibrium" between"separate sovereign entities." The world that De Gaulle imagines, Fulbright said, is exactly analogous to the Europe of a hundred years ago, except that the sovereign entities of the 19th century were individual nations, while those of the Gaullist system would be the "super- states" of North America, Europe, and the Communist bloc...
...ENGLAND. With all due respect to "the great English people," De Gaulle firmly insisted that "union" of Europe, meaning apparently the Gaullist proposal for closer ties between governments, cannot wait for Britain. "One day, perhaps," England will be admitted to Europe-after it has "detached itself from its ties with the Commonwealth...
...since the end of the Algerian war deprived it of its major issue, doubts that any of these measures will halt the downtrend. The problem, says he, is neither TV, nor slanted reporting, nor a glut of papers, but the fact that Charles de Gaulle has hobbled political parties. "Gaullist France is not interested in national affairs," said Servan-Schreiber, a longtime anti-Gaul-list, who might have a telling point here. "People know that De Gaulle makes his own decisions, and no one else in the country has anything to say about them. There is no debate. There...
...service by December 1965, on schedule; expects to have its own H-bomb "well before" 1970; and is actually ahead of schedule with its missile-launching submarine, now due in 1968. Thus De Gaulle had no reason to back away from his declared aim of nuclear independence. As the Gaullist Paris-Presse pointed out, "it is his partners who have greatly changed their tone" since the general rejected the U.S. offer of NATO-committed Polaris missiles last January...