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...leader, seven of the eight were willing to give Wilson the talisman he needs to wave in front of the voters. France, which had called the summit, was less willing, and for a few hours, President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (see page 37) sounded more Gaullist than le grand Charles. "There can be nothing of this kind," Giscard acidly said about Wilson's demands at one heated bargaining session. "Conceding what the British Prime Minister wants could mean that the United Kingdom will remain in the Community. However, almost nothing will remain of that Community." Replied...
Social Peace. Stehlin's assessment was perceived as a vicious stab at the national honor. Gaullist Party Leader Alexandre Sanguinetti howled that his remarks were "an aggression against the nation as a whole." As a result of the furor, Stehlin was forced to resign as vice president of the Assembly, and last week the government ordered him to retire from the air force reserve...
...people of Malle's France cannot be easily divided into two sets of people, one innocent and one guilty, in the kind of division set up by Gaullist myths and by any government trying to administer a system of justice. There is a continuum ranging from the full-time members of the Resistance, through others willing to help out when needed; through those who try to stay neutral or who try to get something for themselves by exploiting the black market or extorting money from refugees like the Horns; toward the far end of the spectrum there is Lucien...
...have been uttered recently by any other statesman, including U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger -Giscard then turned political leader and tried to offer solutions that might stave off the catastrophe. Although Giscard contended that France was in a better position than some other countries, he discarded the old Gaullist emphasis on national sovereignty and talked of interdependence among nations. He repeatedly used the French word concertation, which means cooperation and coordination, to describe the goal of France's new, post-Gaullist policy...
...year a small group of oil producers and consumers should get together to consider the multiple problems of oil. Europe, he said, should have only one voice at that meeting. European skeptics wondered how serious and determined Giscard really would prove to be in carrying out such a non-Gaullist policy. But at least Giscard had made a beginning at providing desperately needed leadership in Europe. France will always march to its own drummer, but at least it seems to have rejoined the international band...