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Down Goes Mendes. In the first Sunday's voting, the Gaullist label proved magic. Soustelle won easily...
...Gaullist party defeated two ex-Premiers, Joseph Laniel and, most surprising of all, Pierre Mendès-France (after 26 years in Parliament...
...Open Door. Even the Communists rejoiced that "the door to negotiations is open." L'Express, liveliest of De Gaulle's journalistic critics, reversed itself spectacularly: "Everyone, or almost everyone, is now 'Gaullist,' and there is reason to be. A plebiscite this week would surely exceed the 80% [of the recent referendum]: at this moment, the man De Gaulle is, in himself, the nation . . . One is now Gaullist in the same way that one is French." Tunisia's President Bourguiba declared that "the words proclaimed by De Gaulle have never before been said. On the political...
...territories, only French Guinea voted no. French residents in the Soviet Union plumped for De Gaulle 74-43, and in the New York voting area, 2,343 to 152. France itself, in a record turnout, jammed the polling places to roll up a majority of 79.25% for the new Gaullist constitution...
...discussion on present-day French-Algerian relations centered on the recent French referendum and the implications of the Gaullist victory for the future of Algeria. Saxe and Mathias agreed that overpopulation was the most serious of the French satellite's problems...