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That prescription was barely a day old when France adopted it last week. Hardly famous for their international cooperation, the French acted chiefly in response to internal pressures-but that will not diminish the result. Concerned over 4½% (and still rising) unemployment, the Gaullist regime took steps to pump $675 million of new spending money into the sluggish French economy. The government raised family allowances (which form a major part of the income of the poor) by 41%, boosted old-age pensions by $20 a year, and granted a 15% cut in personal income tax payments...
...year of mischief-making in 1967. Among other feats, he expelled NATO from French soil, summoned the Québecois to rebel against Canada, egged the British pound on to devaluation and-once more with feeling-vetoed British entry into the Common Market. The most commonly accepted diagnosis of Gaullist behavior credits the general with an obsessive but essentially honorable devotion to la grandeur of France. Such a view is entirely too charitable, argues Harold Kaplan in an article in the current New Leader, entitled "The New Cold War." A Bennington College professor now on a year's leave...
...super powers, the U.S. and Russia: "to take his prizes while the big antagonists are deadlocked-witness the oil deals France is busy making in the Middle East." The French President makes no secret of the fact that he considers the U.S. his best target. In fact, Gaullist logic makes the U.S. out to be the necessary target for France in the interest of world harmony "by contending that American power is dominant in the world, most secure in its seat, and most threatening to small nations...
Opening Round. The gathering early last week in Lille, De Gaulle's birthplace, was an assemblage of some 5,000 Gaullist Deputies, prefects, mayors and youth leaders. It represented the opening round of Pompidou's efforts to shape De Gaulle's amorphous Union pour la Nouvelle Republique into a political party sturdy enough to survive the general. That the U.N.R. is not yet that was made all too clear in the parliamentary elections last spring, when the "godillots," or foot soldiers, of the general barely managed a one-seat majority in the National Assembly. The U.N.R...
...spite of that stricture, Pompidou has managed to make himself noticed. As the chief Gaullist spokesman in the National Assembly, he has proved a masterly orator, demolishing the opposition by a mixture of hard economic facts with wit and elegant phraseology. Twice this year he has displayed these same rhetorical talents on long TV interview programs, has made state visits to Austria and India and soon will journey to Iran. And every two weeks he invites the most important Gaullist Deputies to his office at the Hotel Matignon for strategy sessions, laying the foundation for the day when they will...