Word: gaullists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intention of establishing France as an "atomic third force" and explicitly rejected the concept of integrated European defense that is the foundation of NATO strategic planning. When Adenauer landed at Orly Airport last week, the question uppermost in his mind was whether he could maintain his alliance with Gaullist France without undercutting his longstanding and deeper dedication to NATO...
...holes in Frenchmen who were considered soft on Algeria. So many French politicians had received assassination threats that there was joking about a "Condemned-to-Death Club." One of its charter members would undoubtedly be left-wing Senator François Mitterrand, 43, a fervid anti-Gaullist and outspoken proponent of a negotiated peace in Algeria...
...member of the ineffectual left-wing opposition, he had had no voice in shaping De Gaulle's Algerian policy. The attacks suggested that France's frustrated rightists were capable of anything. The government offered ois bodyguards to all prominent citizens who wanted them, including the bitterly anti-Gaullist Pierre Mendès-France...
...double relationship might explain why Leftist Mitterrand and avowed Rightist Pesquet got together again. But for what purpose? Neither man's explanation entirely satisfied. Without offering any proof, Parisian newsmen contrived a more devious explanation: that Leftist Mitterrand and Rightist Pesquet. equally eager to discredit the regime of Gaullist Premier Michel Debre, could have collaborated in the mutual hope of toppling Debre and with the common intention of doublecrossing each other after the deed was done...
...moving too slowly at reforming Pakistan's legal system and devising a constitution (answers Ayub: "I am not one of those clever chaps. I like to know exactly what I am doing before I do it"). He agrees that Pakistan needs a constitution, but it will probably be Gaullist when it comes, and Ayub would argue that it has to be. He scorns demagogues ("It is a wrong thing to do to play on the emotions of the people") and swears, "I had no desire to take on this kind of work," but many Pakistanis believe that his ambition...