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told me that the SousteIle expulsion produced his organization's worst time of trouble.
Interview, July 28, 1965.
101. AP 1960, pp. 93 and 100.
102. Among them: Raymond Dronne, deputy from Sarthe, expelled in November,
1961; Jean Vittel, deputy from Var, resigned in December, 1961; and Guillain de
Benouville, deputy from Ille-et-Vilaine, expelled in June, 1962.
103. Albin ChaIandon, quoted in LM, November 27, 1958; and AP 1959, pp. 3
and 133.
104. La Nation, April 29, 1961.
105. The membership figure of 2,000 is from former UDT Secretary-General Louis
Vallon, in an interview reported in Robert Boulay, “Louis Vallon, ce gaulliste qui
aime l'anarchie,” Paris-Presse, December 21, 1962.
106. L. Vallon, quoting de Gaulle, in ibid. See also Chariot, L,V.N.R., pp. 260-262.
107. Both Sainteny and Grandval were replaced in January, 1966, but the director
of Notre République, General Pierre Billotte, was then named Minister of State for
Overseas Departments and Territories.
108. Pisani resigned in April, 1967. See below, n. 167. Other members of the gov-
ernment appointed or reappointed in April, 1967, who might be identified with the
Gaullists of the Left, in addition to Billotte, who was kept on, were Georges Gorse,
a former Socialist and new Minister of Information, and Yves Guéna, Postal and
Telecommunications Minister.
109. See. for example. Capitant's review of Debré’s Au Service de la Nation, in
Notre République, July 12, 1963.
110. The National Assembly passed the “Vallon Amendment” in 1965, calling
upon the government to produce a legislative proposal on compulsory profit sharing.
The measure was long delayed, then given to a special commission which reported
negatively upon it in July, 1966. Debré subsequently referred to the Vallon Amend-
ment as a "mythe diabolique,” and Capitant and Vallon charged that the govern-
ment, in deference to business interests, was trying to bury the entire proposal. See
Notre République, May 27, 1966, September 30, 1966, November 4, 1966, and
March 17, 1967; Jean-Claude Casanova, “L’Amendement Vallon,” Revue française
de science politique, XVll, No. 1 (February, 1967), 97-109; and Journal Officiel,
Lois et Decrets, August 18. 1967 (text).
111. Vallon in Notre République, November 4, 1966; and Vallon to the Conven-
tion de la Gauche V<≈ République, in LM, December 18-19, 1966. A possibility of a
split is mentioned in René Capitant, “L’UNR et 1’UDT,” Notre République, Febru-
ary 4, 1966.
112. Notre République, March 17, 1967.
113. Excerpted in LM, November II, 1967.
114. LM, January 27 and February 3, 1968.
115. Léo Hamon, former UDT leader, then member of the UNR Political Com-
mission, in an interview, July 19, 1965.
116. For example, see his editorial, “Le Moment est venu,” in La Nation, May 27,
1966, wherein he argues that Louis Vallon’s profit-sharing scheme is rooted in “one
of the fundamental principles of Gaullism,” i.e., the association of labor and capital.
See also his editorial, in La Nation quoted in LM, January 7, 1966.
117. Buot, Capitant, Chalopin, Collette, Coumaros, Degraeve, Delong, Fossé,
Gasparini, Hauret, Hinsberger, Lc Douarec, Lepeu, Perrin, and Poncelot. Based upon
the Journal Officiel, Débats, Assemblée Nationale, April 27 — June 26, 1965.