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SIGNS AND WONDERS, by Francoise Mallet-Joris. Against a backdrop of Gaullist France near the end of the Algerian war, a writer plods his slow march to lunacy. In her sixth novel, Author Mallet-Joris again demonstrates her ability to create worlds that readers accept instantly...
...Gaulle's increasingly autocratic attitude goes down badly in the French National Assembly, where the Gaullists have a slim majority that barely managed to hold together until the summer adjournment this month. Politicians of every party, except the Communists, protested De Gaulle's condemnation of Israel. Defense Minister Pierre Messmer and Minister of State Pierre Billotte particularly deplored French policy during the crisis; so did Gaullist Coalition Partner Giscard d'Estaing, leader of the independent Republican Party. The Catholic newspaper Figaro attacked France's recent pro-Soviet votes in the United Nations. "Where does De Gaulle...
...French people, who are overwhelmingly in support of Israel, were outraged at De Gaulle's cynicism. And they made their displeasure known. Even the usually Gaullist daily, Paris Presse, reported that De Gaulle was being accused of "an acute attack of visceral anti-Americanism, megalomania, soliciting of Arab customers, and sabotage of the Johnson-Kosygin meeting." The editors' conclusion: "Not everything is wrong in these explanations...
...most of it in P.L. 480 food surpluses and low-interest loans. Out of the ashes of World War II, the nations of Western Europe have forged not only a Common Market but also a sense of common interest that, for all the disruptions and distractions caused today by Gaullist France, may be destined to achieve the economic force and political cohesiveness that-thanks to envy and enmity-have eluded the Continent since the birth of time. If a United States of Europe emerges in the future, its conception may well be traced to the United States of America...
...that the international money plan would be a mere device to help Britain and the U.S. dodge the consequences of their persistent balance-of-payments deficits. Two weeks ago at Munich, to the consternation of U.S. officials, the French swung the other Common Market Finance Ministers to the restrictive Gaullist recipe for monetary reform: larger credit facilities through the IMF. To achieve that, France merely dropped its two-year opposition to devising any contingency plans at all and its generally unpopular demand to study whether the price of gold should be raised. Comparing the Six's action to Britain...