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...rest were idled by a massive transportation shutdown. The country's students barricaded themselves in their universities. Farmers defiantly parked their tractors across the nation's highways. Protesters surged through Paris streets by the thousands each night, battling police and riot troopers. With startling suddenness, the serenity of Gaullist France had been swept away in what the French are already calling "the Davs...
...perroquet," or direct-line amplifier, linked up from the National Assembly to his palace office so that he could hear the debate. It was worth hearing; so long impotent, the Deputies finally had a platform, and some used it well. One was Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former Gaullist Finance Minister and leader of the 43-member Independent Republicans, who are allied with the Gaullists. As he rose to speak, he glanced at the ornate skylight through which flooded the late-afternoon rays of the spring sun. "Never has the light that falls from that skylight seemed...
Edgar Pisani, De Gaulle's onetime Agriculture Minister (1961-66), defected from the Gaullist U.N.R. Party in order to support the censure. In a highly emotional speech, he damned the Gaullists for letting the situation "pourrir" (go to pot). "Your government," he cried, "had all the forces, all the chances that French governments have always lacked. It took credit for peace, for monetary stability, for increasing investments, for institutions adapted to the modern world. But this government was not able to foresee, to cope. It was preoccupied with lasting rather than governing." Socialist Mitterrand boldly proposed to take over...
...mood of France will develop in the next few weeks. The passage of time may work in De Gaulle's favor; the general strike can hardly continue for three more weeks until the referendum. If a semblance of order returns, so may the basic realization that however the Gaullist regime has failed France, no other government in the visible future is likely to do much better...
Politically, the competition ahead in France's multiparty political arena may well bring back memories of the crisis-laden Fourth Republic. As a result of the revolt, most French political experts feel that the Gaullist party will never again place enough members in the National Assembly to form a working majority. If the present Assembly were dissolved at any time soon, the feeling at the moment among most French politicians is that the so-called combined left?Communists plus Mitterrand's assortment of Socialists-would command a solid majority in which the Communist ratio would be higher than...