Word: gaullists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...P.S.U. is largely the length and shadow of Mendes-France, the best-known and ablest Premier of the Fourth Republic. Mendes-France was the only important figure from the world of conventional politics to appear at student rallies throughout the crisis. He is the most widely admired anti-Gaullist and is regarded by the students as the nearest thing to an over-30 political guru. He is an opponent of the presidential system and the likeliest candidate to head a provisional government should the Gaullist Republic fall. With few seats in the old Assembly but many candidates entered, the P.S.U...
...Movement is a new anti-Gaullist group formed by bearded ex-Gaullist Pisani, who resigned from the Cabinet over last year's successful government bid for special decree powers to deal with France's economic problems. His final break with De Gaulle came when he voted for last month's censure motion. The Movement is the freshest Centrist answer to the Gaullist/Communist dilemma, with a program of dialogue, decentralization and economic planning. Prospects: Pisani expects to win no more than five seats, then build for the future...
...most recent incarnation of the Gaullist political party that began life after the war as the Rassemblement du Peuple Francais and later became the Union pour la Nouvelle République. Its policy is whatever the general says, its followers a mélange of those who want stability above all: the establishment, the petite bourgeoisie, the farmers. In an effort to alter the party's autocratic image, De Gaulle has proposed greater participation by workers in factories and by students in universities. Prospects: possibly a gain in seats if backlash from continued violence grows...
Despite the obvious risk of a money-losing venture, Foreign Minister Michel Debré insisted last week that France will not back out of the project. Whether that assurance remains valid, of course, depends on the outcome of France's elections. A non-Gaullist French government might yield to the rising pressure to divert government spending to social services. Many Britons, chafing at the Concorde's cost, would like to see it scrapped...
Forcing a Polarization. On the center-right is De Gaulle's party, the Union for the Defense of the Republic. Once again, it is allied with the Independent Republicans of former Gaullist Finance Minister Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and on the first ballot, the two parties will support the same candidate in most-though not all -constituencies...