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experience suggests that the UDR label soon will be adopted for the whole party,
this latter title will be used for the party as a whole, while “UD-Ve,” when referring
to the present, will be used only to designate the party structure outside parliament.
2. As quoted in Le Monde (hereinafter: LM), May 19, 1959.
3. For example, see Charles de Gaulle, War Memoirs, Vol. I, The Call to Honor
(New York, 1955), pp. 79-80; Vol. Ill, Salvation (New York, I960), pp. 272-276,
292-293, and 307-330; the Bayeux speech in Roy Macridis (ed.), De Gaalle, Implaca-
ble Ally (New York, 1966), pp. 41-43; Major Addresses, Statements and Press
Conferences of General Charles de Gatdle (New York: French Embassy, Press and
Information Division, 1964), pp. 15, 191, 194, 197-199, 201-203, 209, and 246-249.
Numerous other negative references to parties are to be found in such collections of
his speeches as Discours et messages, 1940-1946 (Paris, 1946); La France sera la
France (Paris, 1947); and André Passeron, De Gaidle Parle (Paris, 1962).
4. Discours et messages, 1940-1946 (Paris, 1946), pp. 721-727, as translated and
reprinted in Macridis (ed.), De Ganlle, Implacable Ally, p. 41.
5. De Gaulle, Salvation, p. 9. See also Henry Ehrmann, “Direct Democracy in
France,” American Political Science Review, LVII, No. 4 (December, 1963), 883-901.
6. The relationship between de Gaulle and the MRP is carefully described in
Mario Einaudi and François Goguel, Christian Democracy in Italy and France (Notre
Dame, Indiana, 1952), pp. 188-205. See also Philip Williams, Crisis and Compromise
(Hamden, Conn., 1964), Chapters 8 and 10; and Gordon Wright, The Reshaping of
French Democracy (New York, 1948), pp. 93-94, 132-134, and passim.
7. The RPF experience is described in Roy Pierce, “De Gaulle and the RPF — A
Post-Mortem,” Journal of Politics, XVI, No. 1 (February, 1954), 96-119; and in Wil-
liams, Crisis and Compromise, Chapter 10.
8. See his preelection address of November 7, 1962, in Major Addresses, State-
ments, and Press Conferences of General Charles de Ganlle, pp. 201-203.
9. To the UNR Union of Vendée, Congress at Saint-Jean-des-Monts, as quoted
in LM, November 5, 1963.
10. “Qu’est-ce que I’UNR-UDT?” supplement to La Nation, May 8, 1963, in
pamphlet form.
11. "Pour une France Moderne,” supplement to La Nation, May 8, 1964, p. 2, in
pamphlet form.
12. Item I in a folder sent to all UNR candidates under the title, “Elections
Cantonales des 8 et 15 mars 1964, Dossier du Candidat,” (Paris: UNR-UDT national
headquarters, 1964).
13. François Goguel, “La Signification de la consultation,” in the report on “Les
Elections municipales des 14 et 21 mars 1965,” Revue française de science politique,
XV, No. 5 (October, 1965), 911-912.
14. Jacques Baume), “Le Gaullisme et son avenir,” Nouvelle Frontière, V (Janu-
ary, 1964 [special issue entitled “Le Gaullisme”]), 36. See also, for example, J.
Baumel, “Sachons épouser notre temps,” Notre République, January 10, 1963; and
Michel Eyraud, “L’Opposition dérouté,” La Nation, December 3, 1963.
15. In a speech in Nantes, quoted in Combat, February 1, 1965.
16. René Caille, “A Problèmes nouveau, méthodes nouvelles,” Notre Répub-
lique, January, 1963.
17. Jean Valleix, then UNR Departmental Secretary in Gironde, and now a
deputy and assistant national UD-V' secretary, told me that the party found its best
candidates among businessmen and managerial personnel in private industry, because