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...past, Higonnet explained. DeGaulle "always relied on the weakness of the other political institutions. But maybe they are not as weak as everybody thought," he noted...
...Everyone except Lecanuet represented the old regime. Lecanuet was a change," Patrick L. Higonnet '58, instruct or in History, said last night. Higonnet explained that most of the young intellectual middle class are hostile to DeGaulle's anti-Europeanism and were attracted to Lecanuet's program of European cooperation...
...Gaulle might just quit," Higonnet speculated. "He's capable of doing anything." Higonnet believes that the election result is due as much to DeGaulle's attitude throughout the three-week campaign as to the appeal of his opposition. "He was terribly contemptuous of the others." Higonnet said, "but people just were not contemptuous of Lecanuet...
...addition, Higonnet explained, many different groups in France object to DeGaulle for different reasons. Intellectuals object to his international conservatism, the "rank and file" to his domestic conservatism. However, he thinks that DeGaulle will win the runoff election if he chooses to run. "People might get scared," Higonnet said. "They know there can be a runoff, so on the first vote they can afford to vote for someone they don't really want...
...they want all or nothing, be it agitation conducted by French communists, Egyptian crypto-fascists, or editors of the CRIMSON only serves to make harder the task of those people who have in mind ideas more constructive than methodical anti-colonialism, and less than "mutual trust and understanding." Patrice Higonnet Andre Nikitine