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...week's end, it looked as though many a Frenchman was weary of coalition haggling. A new Gaullist Union Party with half a million members was mushrooming. It announced that it would fight the new constitution, put up candidates in every district in the next election. The new party reflected De Gaulle's political ideas. But De Gaulle himself was discreetly silent about his political intentions...
...France "unity" reached the point where the Communists sat down with democratic parties to draft a new constitution and found no drastic differences in their proposals for a fundamental law. The Communists, indeed, opposed a Gaullist plan to strengthen the executive power. This, too, was a part of the Communist veto position...
...Communist boss is husky, eloquent Maurice Thorez, 45, onetime coal miner, who spent most of the war years in Moscow. Last week he turned his heaviest oratorical guns on the Gaullist-Socialist idea of a western bloc. Such a bloc, he cried, ''would be opposed by the other [eastern] bloc and lead toward new conflicts, toward a war of extermination with atomic bombs...
Marriage Revealed. Léon Blum, 73, France's coldly intellectual Socialist ex-Premier; and Jeanne Levilliers Torres Reichenbach, fiftyish, onetime wife of brainy Gaullist Lawyer Henri Torres ; both for the third time; during Blum's four-year imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp...
Last week Gaullist France condescended to offer a forgiving but not forgetting hand to defeated, degraded Italy. Paris granted Rome limited diplomatic recognition, agreeing to exchange "delegates" who will have the personal rank of ambassador but will not be fully accredited until Italy has paid & paid...