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...mild benevolence." But all seven wanted to hear more about it, and allowed that the price was high and the payoff distant. Meanwhile, all but a fraction of the existing Western atomic stockpile would remain under U.S. lock and key. The proposal was coldly received in France, where the Gaullist daily La Nation even dubbed the prospect of a multilateral force "la farce multilatérale." If the Polaris plan had been touted as a significant boost to the West's deterrent, the gibe might have been justified. As it was, the joke fell flat because a jointly manned...
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...
Although de Gaulle 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 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 polarized between the parties of the 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...