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Search of France, pp. 198-199; and Gérard Adam, "L’Unité d’action C.G.T.-
C.F.T.D.,” Revue française de science politique, XVll, No. 3 (lune, 1967), 576-590.
On the decline of religion as a political issue, see also François Goguel, “Religion et
politique en France,” Revue française de science politique, XVI, No. 6 (December,
1966), 1174-1176.
186. On social change in contemporary France, see the study edited by the
Société française de sociologie, Tendances et volontés de la société française (Paris,
1966); Georges Dupeux, La Société Française, 1789-1960 (Paris, 1964); and Hoff-
mann et al., In Search of France. On social change in Europe generally, see the
articles by Seymour Martin Lipset and Ralf Dahrendorf in Daedalus, Winter, 1964.
187. Op. cit., pp. 3-42.
188. See Goguel and Grosser, op. cit., p. 106, on the decline of party member-
ships, and La Dépolitisation, Mythe ou Réalité? (“Cahiers de la Fondation Nationale
des Sciences Politiques,” No. 120. Paris, 1962) — especially pp. 280-282, on the trans-
fer of political activity from partisan to nonpartisan associations.
189. J.O., Deb., Ass. Nat., December 8, 1966, pp. 5310-5352. The ten percent
barrier in fact eliminated over six hundred opposition candidates, but only two
official Gaullist candidates after the first ballot of the legislative elections on March
5, 1967. Philip M. Williams and David B. Goldey, “The French General Election of
1967,” Parliamentary Affairs, XX. No. 3 (Summer. 1967), 217.
190. J. O., Déh., Ass. Nat., December 8, 1966, p. 5322. The German coalition
formed in November, 1966, also agreed to an eventual amendment of the electoral
system in order to eliminate minor parties.
191. See the interesting and critical comments on the Gaullist view of national
interest in François Goguel (a Gaullist Secretary-General of the Senate, as well as
an eminent political scientist) and Alfred Grosser, La Politique en France, pp. 247-
248.
192. Chariot, L,U.N.R., Chapter II.
193. For example, see Frey's statement quoted in LM, November 26, 1963; his
speech to the UNR “Conférence d'Information” at Asnières in late February, 1965,
printed by the UNR. pp. 2-10; Pompidou’s speech to the Lille Congress, in LM,
November 28, 1967; and the numerous statements of Gaullist leaders quoted in LM,
June 1-30. 1968.
194. From the declaration of UNR deputies meeting at Beaulieu-Sttr-Mer, quoted
in La Nation, September 23, 1963. The same theme — aimed as much at supposed
American puppets as at Russian puppets — was repeated frequently in La Nation
prior to the presidential election of December, 1965, and again in April, 1966, when
a motion of censure against the government was being debated.