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...Mitterrand ten days ago and I could tell that he simply doesn't know how to nationalize. He's made this campaign pledge and now he's got to fulfill it. But I'm not sure his heart's in it." Other observers, however, are convinced that the full Socialist program?including nationalizations?will be carried out. "Many Frenchmen doubt Mitterrand's socialism and think that since he no longer needs the Communists, he'll behave as a moderate and govern at the center-left," says Raymond Aron. "I think these skeptics are wrong and insult the President." The President...
...part of a general "policy of revenge"?along with the stiff new surtaxes on expense accounts, four-star hotels, private boats and incomes over $65,000. Says one private banker, with considerable hyperbole: "My family and I are going to be virgins sacrificed on the altar of a Socialist god!" Says an embittered business leader: "The Socialist leveler tide just may succeed where 200 years of recurring French puritanism has failed: to make France colorless and downright boring." As for the shorter workday and higher minimum wage, businessmen insist that less work for more pay will simply make French...
There was more than good personal chemistry behind the mutual striving for Franco-American entente. Indeed there was a broad range of foreign policy issues on which the Socialist President's views seemed more compatible with Washington's than those of his patrician predecessor. On East-West questions, for example, both Mitterrand and his Foreign Minister have emphatically denounced the Soviet menace in Afghanistan and Poland. In fact, the Socialists have made it clear to Marchais's Communists that they cannot hope to play even a token role in the government without endorsing that condemnation of Moscow's imperialism...
...closely knit, government-linked grandes écoles (great schools), which also provide manpower for the national political parties, be they of the left, right or center. The bureaucratic system and the elite institutions that feed it are geared to political neutrality. Frenchmen both inside and outside the new Socialist government are now counting on that tradition to provide threads of continuity and stability at a time of political transition...
Even the highest levels of French politics tend to be knotted up in the same school ties. No fewer than eight members of Mitterrand's Socialist Cabinet, for example, are alumni of the vaunted Ecole Nationale d'Administration (E.N.A.), which also produced seven members of the outgoing Giscard government -including Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, a top-ranked scholar of the class of '51. Foreign Minister Cheysson (class of '48) is an enarque, as products of the elite school are known, who previously held posts with the leftist Fourth Republic government of Pierre Mend...