Word: oui
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...results in the overseas territories were as astonishing. Only French Guinea, in the control of tough anti-Gaullist Premier Sekou Toure, voted no. Senegal, Niger, even supposedly sullen Madagascar came through with thumping oui majorities...
...Gaullist sweep buried the opposition. De Gaulle won even in the virulently Red district of Communist Boss Maurice Thorez. In Louviers, whose mayor is bitterly anti-Gaullist Pierre Mendės-France, 69% of the ballots were marked oui...
...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...