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...there was one thing that De Gaulle most emphatically was not bringing with him: francs. There would be no offers of cash aid or loans. The basic purpose of the trip was not to buy Latin affection, Gaullist sources insisted, but rather to "reactivate and reinvigorate" French relations in South America, which withered with France's decline as an international power during and after World War II. De Gaulle was clearly avoiding direct conflict with U.S. influence in Latin America, but he was not forgoing the chance to preach his favorite sermon of renewed nationalism. "I will simply employ...
...sounded vaguely grand, or perhaps grandly vague, but many of De Gaulle's closest supporters were worried. For all its prestige value, the trip will keep the French President, at 73 and just five months after his prostate operation, on a dead run for more than three weeks. Gaullist newspapers worried in print about the "alarming trip" that would take their hero to "the land of revolutions, of assassination attempts one after another." Novelist François Mauriac, a most emotional Gaullist, wrote in Figaro Litte-rairé: "I fear this trip, I detest it; it seems...
...Gaullist critics were quick to complain about the manner of the budget's presentation (to the public rather than to Parliament first), but few dared to challenge the facts and figures of what Giscard calls "a sincere balanced budget, without any tricks or guile." In the land of Descartes, where the class prize begins in kindergarten and the race is to the swiftest synopsis, the elegant, aristocratic Giscard has been winning prizes all his life as the fastest brain in town. Born to wealth and name, Giscard zipped through France's best schools, became a member...
...flirt with the French government. Charles de Gaulle is convinced that the Soviet bloc is crumbling under the pressure of traditional nationalisms, thus opening opportunities for the spread of French influence. De Gaulle himself granted Maurer an hour-long audience in which he turned on that rarely seen Gaullist charm. As Maurer emerged, newsmen asked him if le grand Charles had been in good form. The Rumanian, who speaks fluent if Italian-sounding French, rolled his eyes to the ceiling and said: "Et comment...
...clincher for the Gaullist plans was to come last week. The Munich convention of Strauss's Christian Social Union, the Bavarian affiliate of the C.D.U., was to issue a call for a drastic reorientation of West Germany's foreign policy. The shift was to be formally adopted at a meeting in Bonn of the Gaullist-packed C.D.U. directorate, under Adenauer's chairmanship...