Word: gaullists
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...array of troubles before De Gaulle is indeed sobering. The country is basically prosperous, but its economy is restrictive. Politically, the new Assembly, calling itself Gaullist, is considerably more rightist in outlook than the general himself. Above all, the four-year-old Algerian Moslem revolt continues to drain France of $2,400,000 a day, and prospects for a negotiated end to the fighting, once considered high, were badly dashed last October, when the rebels angrily considered De Gaulle's soldier-to-soldier, "flag-of-truce" offer a humiliating proposal...
With the results in, there was much clucking about the underrepresentation in the new Assembly of the Communists (ten seats) compared with the 188 for the new Gaullist Union for the New Republic, when both parties in the first round polled about the same number of votes. Yet the Communists (who in the old days gained unfairly through proportional representation) had in fact suffered a drop of more than 1,500,000 votes-possibly the most important manifestation of the election...
...with having obtained for the Eisenhower headquarters before D-day the order of battle of the German Luftwaffe, the placement of flak installations and of the main dispositions of the German army. Characterized as a man "who always happily chooses the most perilous posts," General Challe is a dedicated Gaullist...
...week's end, trooping to the polls for the second, runoff round of National Assembly elections, French voters confirmed this sour tribute to the power of the Gaullist label. Clinging to De Gaulle's coattails, the hastily organized U.N.R. (Union for the New Republic) emerged as France's biggest party (26.5% of the vote), won half again as many Assembly seats (187) as any other party. Counting the conservative Independents (120) and the 67 Deputies from Algeria, more than two-thirds the members of the new Assembly were elected on tickets appealing essentially to a right-wing...
...votes they got in 1956. Their defeat was furthered by adroit gerrymandering and the coalitions that non-Communist parties formed against strong Communist candidates. Party Boss Maurice Thorez squeaked back into the Assembly, but his wife, Jeanette Vermeersch, was beaten by a Gaullist in one of Paris' "reddest" districts; so, too, was tubby Jacques Duclos, the party's No. 2 man and parliamentary leader. Of the 150 seats won in 1956, the Communists held on to only ten. This hardly reflected their true voting strength as France's second largest party, but then, the old system...