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...strong leader. Said De Gaulle pointedly: "In our world, which is so dangerous-one sees it now at this very moment-France cannot survive if she falls back into the impotence of yesterday." Many voters are likely to agree. Further, the government-controlled radio-TV network, which plugged the Gaullist line even in news broadcasts, limited each opposition speaker to ten minutes, and a sternly ticking time clock was shown before the speaker began and when he had ended. The performances were enough to drive a televiewer into the kitchen for another shot of cognac-if he did not switch...
...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...
...strident tones of Gaullist rhetoric must inevitably slip out of the pronouncements of the titans of the Fifth Republic as a consequence of recent events; to be replaced by the more familiar, if less exalted, language of partisan politics. De Gaulle's "French nation," united behind its leader and scorning the divisive and dilatory representative mechanism, has disappeared, to be replaced by the more familiar atomistic Frenchman, who does not prize unity above all things, nor value efficiency most highly. The vote in Sunday's referendum was, in fact, a vote against government by referendum...
...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...