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“ils ont fait leurs preuves.” Interview, Bordeaux, July 28, 1965. See below for discus-
sion of the attractions of Ies cadres to the UNR.
18. Paul Guillon, “Pour une école des cadres UNR-UDT," Notre République,
March I, 1963; and the reports by Pierre Viansson-Ponte in LM, July 6, 1966, and
by André Passeron in LM, November 27-28, 1966.
19. The quoted phrase is from the editorial in Notre République, October 15,
1965.
20. Vol. I, The Call to Honor, p. 3.
21. (Paris, 1963), p. 273.
22. Edmond Michelet, Le Gaullisme, Passionante Aventure (Paris, 1962), pp. 17-
19, 141; Georges Pompidou to the UNR, Conseil National, meeting at Asnières in
May, 1963, as quoted in LM, May 21, 1963; René Capitant, “L’U.N.R. et ΓU.D.T.,"
Notre République, February 4, 1966; Notre République, April-May, 1966 (when edi-
torials gave strong support to de Gaulle’s withdrawal from NATO); and Léo Hamon
(of the U.D.T.), interview, July 19, 1965.
23. Premières Assises Nationales, BordeauxlNovember 13-15, 1959, “UNR, Réso-
lutions adoptées par les Assises,” a UNR publication (Paris, 1959), p. 1.
24. Interview with Léo Hamon, former senator and then a member of the UNR
Commission Politique, July 19, 1965. On the same subject, see Louis Vallon, Le
Grand Dessein National (Paris, 1964), pp. 71-86, 193-204; René Capitant, Notre
République, February 4, 1966; Jacques Dauer, of the Front du Progrès, quoted in
LM, May 17, 1966; and LM, October 11, 1966, reporting on the formation of the
Convention de la Gauche Ve République.
25. Le Gaullisme, Passionante Aventure, p. 12. For a perceptive discussion of
de Gaulle as a modernizer, see Peter Lamour, “De Gaulle and the New France,”
Yale Review, LV, No. 4 (Summer, 1966), 500-520.
26. “Pour une France Moderne,” headline, p. 11.
27. April, 1959, to the Association de la Presse Etrangère, as quoted in L'Année
Politique, 1959 (Paris, 1960), p. 44 (hereinafter: AP).
28. Jacques Baumel in a speech at Nantes, quoted in Combat, February 1, 1965.
29. Jacques Baumel, to the UNR Union of Vendée, Congress at Saint-J ean-des-
Monts, November, 1963, as quoted in LM, November 5, 1963.
30. Jean-Ciaude Servan-Schreiber, “Au delà de 1’UNR-UDT,” Notre République,
May 29, 1964.
31. Jean Bernasconi, to the Congress of the Union of the Loire, April 10, 1963,
as quoted by Georges Lavau, “L'UNR-UDT au lendemain de sa victoire,” Revue
française de science politique, XlII, No. 2 (June, 1963), 441.
32. Debré, Au Service de la Nation (Paris, 1963).
33. Premières Assises Nationales, Bordeaux, November 13-15, 1959, “UNR,
Résolutions adoptées par les Assises,” p. 3. See also the declaration of the UNR
deputies in favor of "une vraie démocratie sociale,” quoted in Combat, December
II, 1962.
34. One articulate spokesman for the Gaullists of the Left is René Capitant.
See, for example, his articles, “Vers la démocratie économique," La Nouvelle fron-
tière (May, 1963), 5-10; “La Rentrée politique de Michel Debré,” Notre République,
July 12, 1963 (a review of Debré’s book, Au Service de la Nation); and "Le Peuple
a parlé,” Notre République, March 17, 1967. See also the statement of Gilbert
Grandval to the UNR Conseil National, in LM, May 21, 1963; Léo Hamon, "Nous
ne sommes pas des conservateurs,” Notre République, July 19, 1963; Albin Chalan-