Word: oui
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thunderous shout of approval. An overwhelming 80% of French voters plumped for his version of the Fifth Republic. In De Gaulle's home village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, where the Premier was an early-morning voter at the town hall, 'the count on his referendum was oui, 195; non, 1. De Gaulle telephoned friends in Paris to assure them he was not the dissident voter...
...advising the faithful that they could vote for the new constitution even though it declared the Fifth Republic to be secular. Only a few voices were still raised against De Gaulle. Though his own Radical Socialists had refused to back him, Pierre Mendes-France stubbornly insisted that to vote oui was to vote for dictatorship and the end of parliamentary government. In L'Express. Writer-Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, onetime Communist sympathizer, wrote tartly: "I do not believe in God, but if I had to choose between him and De Gaulle, I would sooner vote...
...biggest campaigner for a oui vote is the French army in Algeria. Action units are distributing 3,000,000 political tracts, putting up 500,000 posters, scrawling Oui De Gaulle on every surface available. Propaganda films make the rounds of the villages, suggesting to women that a oui vote will put a new stove in every kitchen. Troops assemble the local population to warn them that non is a "vote for Communism." Even Commander in Chief Raoul Salan and his wife have taken to the hustings; Salan claims to have spoken to 2,000,000 people, telling them that...
According to the script prepared with loving care by the men around De Gaulle, the drama unveiled last week in the Place de la Republique was to be a demonstration of popular affection for De Gaulle-a stirring show that would prompt Frenchmen everywhere to vote oui in the Sept. 28 referendum on the new constitution. But when the show finally opened, it flopped...
...Unfazed, the general earnestly began to proclaim the virtues of the new constitution, which he declared is suited "to this century and to the people we are." His voice breaking with emotion, De Gaulle shouted: "With all my heart, in the name of France, I ask you to answer oui." But over De Gaulle's head as he spoke floated a cluster of red, white and blue balloons bearing the single word...