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...some foreboding (if he believed all the experts), De Gaulle turned on his TV set and concentrated on an election that might keep him in Colombey the rest of his days. When it became clear that the voting for a new National Assembly had turned into a landslide for Gaullist candidates, France's President could not resist making a jubilant telephone call to Georges Pompidou, the interim Premier whose government was toppled only last month by a rebellious Parliament...
Firmly United. Strictly speaking, De Gaulle had not even threatened to quit this time. But his ministers had repeatedly warned that a defeat for the Gaullist Union for a New Republic (U.N.R.) would result in an "immediate, grave crisis." At the Elysee Palace, De Gaulle's files were packed and ready for removal to Colombey; to friends, he pointedly remarked that he might soon start on Volume IV of his memoirs. After the October constitutional referendum in which, as De Gaulle privately admitted, he had won only a "flabby" victory, many observers predicted that the U.N.R. would lose...
...fact, Gaullist candidates rolled up 31.9% of the popular vote-nearly twice the total they had won in 1958 when De Gaulle returned to power-and established the U.N.R., in Interior Minister Roger Frey's words, as "the first party of France...
...strong enough for him to accept. Obviously echoing De Gaulle's view, Premier Georges Pompidou explained that to get the true results, one must subtract from the no votes "the 27% or 28%" that represent the Communists and the extreme rightists, who are antidemocratic as well as anti-Gaullist. Thus, suggested Pompidou, the opposition party leaders were able to poll only about 10% of the vote-an insignificant amount next to the 62% voting yes. Information Minister Christian Fouchet added that, after all, Kennedy had defeated Nixon only "by some small percentage point...
...Communist Party's No. 2 man. Waldeck Rochet, wearing metal-rimmed spectacles and a funereal suit, warned of the evils of Gaullist capitalism and of the military alliance with "vengeful" West Germany. Senate President Gaston Monnerville, a Negro born in French Guiana, spoke in the name of the Radical Party, argued legalistically that De Gaulle had violated the constitution and that his resignation threat, if he did not get an impressive yes vote, changed the referendum from a "consultation to a summons...