Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million voted for the R.P.F. candidates. The Communists, who had been France's most heavily supported party, dropped from 5,500,000 to 4,700,000. Though Foreign Minister Georges Bidault's Popular Republicans lost most heavily, De Gaulle picked up votes from all parties, including at least a quarter-million from the Communists themselves...
...enigma to many. Once, however, he painted a revealing self-portrait : a passage in his remarkable, prophetic book, The Army of the Future,* published by Colonel de Gaulle in 1934. He wrote: "The depth, the singularity, the self-sufficiency of a man made for great deeds is not popular except at critical times. Although when in contact with him one is conscious of a superiority which compels respect, he is seldom liked. Moreover, his faculties, shaped for heroic feats, despise the pliability, the intrigues and the parade through which most brilliant careers are achieved in peacetime. And so he would...
While "Across the Wide Missouri" is an excellent survey of a period vastly underrated in popular history, Mr. Devote's greatest contribution lies in his analysis of true pioneers. The mountain men, the visionary merchants doomed to failure, and the Indians were components of a complex society that influenced the formation of a "Continental mind." Hard, cunning, and loose-living, the mountain men develop as a strange breed with a passion to destroy the country they loved. They trapped foolishly with no idea of the future. In their society a man's ability was his only passport...
Ramadier, caught between Communist intransigence and the rising strength of Charles de Gaulle, asked for a vote of confidence. The opposition came mainly from the Communists and the far Right. The Socialists and Popular Republicans voted solidly for Ramadier, and a sprinkle of votes from other parties enabled him to squeak through, by 300-to-280. He had gained a little time; the darkening situation made it seem desperately little...
Incredibly, the shapely Renée had defied the party; she had voted for herself. She simply thought she would be a better mayor than Monsieur Leonard. Nine Gaullists, two Socialists and two Popular Republicans had gleefully agreed...