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...than blind devotion to party and platform. This gave him flexibility in the 1946-58 period, when De Gaulle was out of power. Other Gaullists remember those years as "the crossing of the desert," but Chaban-Delmas served without qualm in the governments of Pierre Mendeè-France, Guy Mollet and Félix Gaillard. In recent months his independence emboldened him to define Gaullism in terms that echoed those of Pompidou: "Being a Gaullist means believing that the policies followed by De Gaulle have been, on the whole, good. This does not automatically mean that Gaullists believe that...
...fission has proved to be a downright political advantage to many Communist parties. The image of Communism's being run by an alien despotism in Moscow has faded to a great extent as individual parties have become more independent. The French party for years cringed under Socialist Guy Mollet's indictment that "the Communists are not of the Left but of the East"; by asserting a moderate amount of independence, the French Communists have gained a new respectability in French political life (see page 41). The Italian party, the largest European Communist Party outside the East bloc, which is likely...
...coalition of the non-Communist left assembled three years ago to oppose De Gaulle in the presidential elections, the F.G.D.S. has hung onto anti-Gaullism as one of its few unifying principles. Its member groups-Guy Mollet's Socialists (74 seats), the Radicals (25) and the Convention (18)-still think more in narrow party terms than of broader federation concepts. Workers make up the main following of the F.G.D.S. With Mitterrand's appeal waning, the Federation may lose some seats...
...wrong, at least for that day. Picking up eight votes from Jacques Duhamel's Centrist independents, the government of Premier Pompidou survived with eleven votes to spare. Socialist Guy Mollet discounted the results. "Outside this Assembly," he cried, "the censure has already been voted." In a way, Pompidou almost agreed. "Things will never be exactly the same again," he conceded...
...cooperation suggests, furthermore, that when de Gaulle steps down from the Presidency some time in the next few years, a leftist will stand an extraordinarily good chance of succeeding him. The candidate of the united left, certainly not a Communist, would likely be Mitterand or Guy Mollet -- a disliked but very skillful former leader of the fourth Republic. Another Fourth Republic figure, Pierre Menders-France who made his political comeback in Grenoble last week after unsuccessful attempts in 1958 and 1962, is one of the most intelligent and reform-conscious of all Socialist leaders. Mendes has a very large following...