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Print Name of Person Submit Image Signature of Person Submit KEW YORK TIMES, Thursday, 24 April 1969

on Bids Voters Back de Gaulle}

By HENRY TANNER leading opinion samplers. It will the weekend indicated an evenj Sp.eclal to The New Yorfc Times be published in the late editions split between "Yes" and "No." PARIS, April 23 — Former of Le Figaro tomorrow. Mr. Pompidou's effect on the Premier Georges Pompidou, in The poll is understood to. put campaign is viewed as double- a televised, appeal to the nar the vote qf the opposition at|edged. As a Gaullist cam- ti6n tonight, urged a "yes" about 53 per cent against 47 paigner calling for a large vote in the referendum Sunday per cent for the Government, "Yes" vote, he is one of the with a large segment of the Government's best assets. in the the name of "common But as a potential Presiden- sense" and "fidelity to General electorate, however still un- tial candidate, he is .believed to de Gaulle." decided or intending to cast be cutting into the Gaullist's The voters ^a're being asked 'blank ballots. The poll was strength. A good many voters to approve constitutional re- taken Monday and Tuesday. 'are saying that they may be If accurate,-it means a dra- tempted. to vote "No" and thus forms creating new regional to hasten General de Gaulle's governmental organizations matic reversal for the Govern- exit, because the reassuring and transforming of the Senate ment. A poll published Saturday figure of Mr. Pompidou is wait- into a consultative assembly. had put the "Yes" vote at 52 ing in the background. But in fact the voters . will|per cent,_ and • the "No" vote Mr. Pompidou will speak cast their ballots for or against at 48. Private Government re- again tomorrow,, at, a; rally in President de Gaulle, 'who-, an- ports from the provinces over Lyons. . ./£«'^"O''^--.'/"•:>-•'"" nounced 10' days ago he would retire ^if the reforms were re- jected. Polls since then, have shown that his leaving or stay- tog! has become the only real issues in the minds of most Voters. Mr. Pompidou impressed those'Who watched him; tonight as a remarkably skilled cam-: paigner, and, his. contribution to the Gaullist campaign was thought to have. been highly •effective. ; '.'.••' ' .'-,.. Mr. Pompidou, an avowed •candidate for the Presidency in •Gaulle era, did. not refuse to NEW YORK TIMES, Friday, 25 April 1969 lost nd. General] ..__,. ,_,.,_,. _„,_,-__ down. The former'Premier has been under touve strong pressure; from the 1Gaul- ylist ..leadership :: to' make such WGaullistsinVoie .' a statement.;-::; :' •';••• .'if£ 1 His contribution to the. cam-. WonldPerilFrance •paign:came a_t a crucial moment. . For the first time,/a public! opinion poll showed the Gov- By HENRY TANNER ernment trailing.. -The poll-is>by Special to The New York Times ;j;St}fres,v: one of ^ie^clijjuitr'y's. PARIS, April 24—The princi- ...But- Alain Poher-,-; the pal speakers for the Gaullist dent of the Senate, declared regime and for the opposition to- himself a guarantor • of peace .and order in the country in day reflected expectations of a the case of an opposition vic- close^•-.outcome in Sunday's tory and declared .that.'lie /and referendum by focusing their his colleagues hadrfull trust in campaign on the possible con- the institutions of the country sequences of a Government de- and the patriotism of their feat. countrymen. Mr. Poher would become in- Premier Maurice Couve de terim President if President de Murville devoted'most of his Gaulle stepped down:from the last, nationwide television ad- presidency,; as he has said he dress before the voting to a will':'dd' if the: Gpyernment's proposal for-Constitutional re- warning that an opposition, vic- form is rejected..;: ••.•'. .. tory would-be followedi by a' Tonight marjsed the end of "period of adventures" and the the official campaign on the rise of the "totaUtai-ians: Goyernment-ttv^hed.^ television' the left. . . "-''" .**; . netwoVk. *"' ' •' '" ~c . '• The referendum asks the vot- President de Gaulle will ad- ro...•*«-: --'---JJ*-''••••-' ' •- • ' dress the nation on tele'visipn i'ttpnjorrojv. :;His;,address:Jsjiiib shtal ;prganizatr6fls7an ; .,._. .. . , ainf •""- " ' ""*•" ;d ifie"'Gatillistg;; "consultative L NEW YORK TIMES, Saturday, 26 April 1969

.-.'.o- ' •'.-f. . -d e Gaulle''- •-.•-s Appea. t l ti*-*o Natio* V n

PARIS, April 25 (AP) — a majority of you, solemnly/- - siori pf each one of you Following, in unofficial trans- . on'this capital subject, and''.^weighed: ;so heavily, lotion, is a transcript of the •whatever might be the num;:i;fc -YiveJa Repubilque! Viveja address delivered by President . ber, the ardor and the devo-:; a"'ce' ' .'•••••' '•• • de,Gaulle on radio and tele- tion of. the army of those • vision tonight.' who support me and who, in Frenchwomen, Frenchmen: any case, hold the futufei of You; to, whom I have!so ; the country, my- present task' of ten;,spoken for. France, you as chief of state'" would :ob-, must ,know .that your reply viously become .impossible, Sunday is gpirig to determine I would immediately stop ex- her ..dei-itiriy because first of': ercising my functions. '. ^liv.ItVXs 'fc.question ';pf bring- j • jThen, how; woulji be 'rrias-. ing 'a very /"considerable tered the situation • resulting change, to the: structure .of from the negative victory.of : v pur "country. .,--. '-'-: ;'.; .'. ,ali: these diverse, disparate - It is a,great thing to bring '. and. discordant oppositions, about the rebirth of our old with, the inevitable return, to provinces, improved for mod- the: play .bT'.'ambitions, illu- ern times, under the form : of sions, machinations arid trea- regions: to give them the;nev son in the nation connection cessary means for each one that such a rupture would to settle its own affairs while : provoke? at the same time playing its Would 'Carry put Mandate' role in our national whole; to make centers where initia- On the contrary, if I receive tive, activity and life plos-r proof of. your confidence, I som. y . .... will carry out my mandate, I •It is a; great thing ,to .re- will carry out, thanks to. you, unite the Senate and' the "through the creation ';of the Economic and Social Council •regions arid, the renovation in a single assembly, deliber-' of .the'.Senate, the work un- ating with priority and.pub- dertaken 10 years ago to give licly: all :bills instead of, each our country the democratic one* on its ~own,: being're- institutions adapted to our duced to obscure arid acces- people, in .the world where sory interventions. .;. •; we find ourselves and at the ' It is•'a /great thing to as-' time when we are living, after sociate the representation of the confusion, the troubles productive: activities land the and the misfortunes that we vital-force of our people; with. have passed through!for gen- : all the local and legislative erations, i measures concerning its ex- ..''• I will continue, with your istence and; its development. support; to act so that, what- 'Destiny of France' at Stake ever happens-, progress should Your reply'is going to de- be developed, order assured, termine the destiny of France > the money defended, inde- because that reform is an in- pendence maintained, .peace tegral: part of the participa- safeguarded, and France re- tion which the equilibrium of spepted. ',:••''"•' modern' society henceforth Ultimately, at the end of demands. • the regular term, without r To refuse jit >is to oppose— rupture and upheaval [I in an essential domain—:this shall] turn, the last page of social, moral, human trans- the chapter that I started in. formationi without which we .our history .some 30 years will go to disastrous upheav- : ago. [and] I shall hand over als. '•'; • - ''; .,•'.••.-'•;' ••' - •'••••'m.y official charge to the man '• To adopt it is: to make ;a: whom you will have chosen :decisive :>step on .."the road to carry it after me. ;which would lead us to prog- Erericliyrarnen,; 'Frenohmen, ress in.order and agreement, ', in what is::going to.become of in profoundly modifying the relations among Fren'ch'peo- ple. ~ Your reply is going to de- termine the destiny; of France &i

"3chosen^ • j$$<$^tt~x&$$; to; carry at afte&r me; In' conclusion he . said: "Never has the ^decision of each one of you' weighed so heavily." ./.;.;, . ; No Hint of Succession The.general had;never-before stated clearly that he would retire-at the end of his seven- In TV Appeal on Tomorrow's year mandate, which ends in Ballot, He Restates Intent 1972; He had also avoided giv- ing .any hint of whether he to Quit if Reforms Fail would throw his personal sup- port to an'lieir apparent" !of jhis choosing. : : MANY ARE UNDECIDED Several ministers are reported to have urged him to make a reference.to the issue of suc- Latest Poll Puts President ,cession. ,-'••. „' •,.;. ..'.-'-•' '.' 6 The President, stressed each Behind, but Final Speech syllable of the two words wKeri Is Expected to Help Him he said that it was "obviously; impossible" for him to; stay! in office if he was .disavowed ; by a majority of the voters.-•- -: '' The text o/ de Gaulle speech :;/Any opposition victory, ,he- . is printed oh Page 2. said;;; 'would''. W 'a' triumph i< By HENRY TANNER J ; Special :to.THe New YoriTJmes surgeiTCe_ioJ;tlie: .l^play. _„,-.;...-.£ - PARIS, April 25—President 1 de Gaulle, in a last appeal to :ipns; iliusions ; - riiachinatibris the voters, asked the Frfench < ind treason" that would shake nation tonight for a "show; of md disrupt the- nation. How confidence!' that would enable; would it be possible to • master One1' objectioni of-the opposi- him to serve-out his term and such a situation? he asked, leav- tion. to-> the>-project i is,..that' \ a finish his "30-year chapter" in ing his question ominously un- single" question requiring a sin- answered. gle answer is being agked even French history. • ' though many Frenchmen who I In' a nationwide radio and! After the speech was video- favor regional''reform are op- television address, he; restated taped this, morning, the.Presi-j posed to a change in the Sen- ;his: determination to step down :lent drove to his country housel ate. immediately .if'the voters in n Colombey-Ies.-Deu>:-Englises, President de Gaulle declared some 140 miles southeast of that the vote would determine the referendum : Sunday - re- Paris. He will vote there Sun- the destiny of France for two jected the Government's - pro- iay. •-- •-.' -v :-••'. reasons: because of the magni- 'posals for constitutional re-, --On television, he sat behind tude of the proposed reform forms. .. ' " • ^ .. i brilliantly shiny desk, lean- and because he could not stay Voters are being asked to ap- ing forward,' gazing straight in power if- he were repudi- into the camera and speaking a,ted/ v. -..,-, •„. ... i prove the creation of 22 new even .more deliberately than' is - !Accbtdilig---to. the polls, the regions and a change to make his habit. His only gesture .was majority- .roll .cast their, ballots the Senate a consultative body. an occasional clasping and un- A poll published as the gen- clasping of his hands. " " eral sppke gave the odds to his The voters will be asked a for-or against him'father than single question:' "Do you> ap- for or against the reforms. opponents. It said that as of prove of the draft law concern- The poll published today in last Anight 51 per cent of the ing the-creation of regions and France-Soir was conducted by voters who said they had made [the renewal of the Senate?" IFOP, one of the two leading up;:their:mmds intended/to vote French' polling organizations. and:'4i9;:"peY:tent;'yes; -''—I..' . Would Alter Constitution The last poll, a week ago, had The draft-is a 10,000-word given the Government 52 per General 'Gains Votes' [document that, if adopted, will cent, to 48 per cent for the , However, a large but .unspec- change roughly one out of three opposition: ified part: of tfae electorate re- articles of the French Consti- Another poll, by Sofre's, pub- iiiauied undecided "and, as one tution relating to mainland lished in 'Le Figaro yesterday, ^Frenchman said, "Wheneverthe (France. gave the opposition 53 percent, The reform would create 22 to 47 per cent for the Govern- general speaks, he ;gains-votes." new regions, including Corsica, ment. A Sofres poll 10 days ago : Speaking, solemnly and with along the demarcation lines of had given the Government 55 great intensity, but without the .the historic provinces and per cent. pyrotechnics of which he is- wdCtd: change- the. Senate from Private Government reports occasionally capable, the 78- a':.seeoridj*legislativs chamber' I had also produced evide^e of ;"*^:a;fcpnsultatiVe assembly'. 'a dramatic recent rise.ih.o.ppol year-d]4President said: .sition strength/ •.'... '•• :;;- ^-'r.^.;^;;| "Ultimately, at the end of the ; ; •-' -••'-'--'i<-'~'j:-'-':gfe^''/-''-v''J^J£i'liJ'-'.'A'Ivj' " ' .I.',-,- - ' -"•^g|;rupture; NEW YORK TIMES, Sunday, 2? April

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Charles de Gaulle is a hard man to beat inoa refer- endurii. But never in the past decade has he taken a greater risk for less purpose than he is taking today. Thqfcalloting appears so close that, for the first time, the French President has pledged himself not to seek a third:term in 1972 if the country upholds him now. Instead of insisting on a massive victory, his usual threat?to resign will be activated this time only if he is actually "disavowed by a majority." Polls show almost a third of the nation undecided or planning to abstain. With a single "Oui" or "Non" to goyern a 10,000-word reform modifying at least twenty--articles of the French Constitution, the refer- endum reduces the democratic process in France to an absurdity—while pretending to increase popular participation in government. But the greater irony is that the reform itself is neither urgent nor important. Decentralization of government will remain ,a myth For 30 years—since the even if France's 96 departments are grouped into 22 dark days of Dunkirk—Gen- eral Charles de Gaulle has regions with regional assemblies. The 22 regional pre- been the man around whom fects named by Paris will each have more executive Frenchmen have rallied power than the 96 who run the provinces now. The times of stress. taxing power will also remain centrally controlled. In a nationwide referen- Replacement of the Senate by an even weaker con- dum today, that loyalty is sultative assembly may also eliminate its anti-Gaullist being tested again, the ref- majority. But the existence of this hostile majority in erendum deals with/the gen- eral's plans to decentralize one chamber has only meant a delay of a few weeks in the country's administration some legislation until the Senate vote could be over- and transform the Senate into ridden- by the Gaullist-controlled National Assembly. a consultative body. Evident- The third reform would make the Gaullist Premier, ly worried by indications on rathervthan the anti-Gaullist Senate President, interim the eve of .the referendum Chief of State in the event of Presidential death or dis- that sentiment was divided ability1; But that tenure would be limited to the 20 to fairly evenly between sup- po ters and opponents of the 35-day; election campaign that would ensue. Few of de reforms, President de Gaulle Gaulle's supporters feel this to be vital. Since last went on teleyision last Friday June's election the Gaullists have had an absolute flight to Warn; that if the pro- Karlsson in Affonbladet, Sweden majority in the National Assembly, the first one-party posal were "disavowed fay 4 majority in French history. With their control of the ''Ultimatum" majority among you ... my government assured for the next four years, they see present task as chief of state day's ballot turns out. Or, little reason to risk an upheaval now. would obviously become im- as he put it in his best orator- The unrest exposed by the strikes of students and possible and right away I ical style: "At the end of the workers last year will not be appeased by any of the would stop the exercise of regular term, without rending my functions." and without upheaval, turning current reforms. In any case, violence has not erupted General de Gaulle also the last page in the chapter again this spring. On the contrary, it is the referendum said—ifor the first time'with- of our history which I opened that has stirred up discontent, instead of easing it. out equivocation — that he 30 years ago, I will transmit Even some Gaullists may vote "Non," especially .would retire when his term as my official charge to the one young people who feel the general has overstayed his President expires in Decem- that you will have elected to ber, 1972, no. matter how to- time and would be.better replaced now. assume it after'me." In jyjese circumstances, the referendum shapes up as anj>act of authoritarian bravado. President de Gaulle announced one during last year's strikes; but post- poned^1 when' defeat appeared likely. The election called instead was essentially a Pompidou victofyvNow the general is insisting on a personal vote of confidence. His eleventh-hour television appeal Fri- day fey yet. v^in it.for:him. But the atmosphere in

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. By:3QHN L. HESS A curbstone survey of. thjhis votei on;his .continued tenurer— SpgCffiFlo'Tlw Wew York Times prosperous commercial city bn butweighed''the''possible nier- ' QRLEArlS;iJFrance, AprU 26 the Loire found that, tlje 'issue its '•b'f greater regional autoh- —"I hsi^'j&sfilin^-'faifh-iji de on the ballotT^-regional reor- pmy...,. u _, Gaulle^'' said'Mrs. Blot, "but I ganization and : Senate .reform ' The .Jipll also jound a sharp don't know'Why he had'to have —7-was virtually'fhe least among divivisio; n "of- -outlook according a referendum. Politics, I sup- the preoccupatiohs of voters. to class Jarid'age, except that, a pose.".- ' ". - For those. leaning "toward: a general -, .feeJing; of xflssatisfa,c- If there'is.'such a thing as, a "no" vote, the overriding Icon; tibii cut across all lines. !"Ipe yEicai'Gaullist, it is this wispy cerns were taxes, the cost of Galullu e is right," said an anti- widow''in 'black, keeper of a living and the survival oT smallGaullist intellectual, "when he boarding "house. Her worry re- business. . . talks; ,ab'out a social malaiseV •Vh&j- t3 P> (isf crt- £> Eirt a : .'^ide'-belief that Presi- On' the side of a "yes" vote„,, At the' depot,, a young rajl- gtszLflii^Bi! S™k S! -oSSI s a difficult stability and the stature 6f road worker said: "I've no cbh- .President—Who has made, 8 33s I -i^-S- : the v referendum a corffiderice |5^|a. a liiHIgali^i^iir Ofa«a TK . IS^frUca-Sj/BMs.!* l&*& *%* I! ^r^vi=, O, i- t§?^li." B.. &"3^v,Sg °-=%, i ffft i-^gs-p 5£. P M S '"» , "sSStr" asg" ,,^S^ So-g-BS^ . . _

P CD MEW YORE POST, Monday, 28 April 1969

The Twilight of Charles de Gaulle In effect President Charles de Gaulle and tersely fulfilled—to renounce his had submitted to the people of France the office unless his wishes prevailed. Beyond inflation, taxes, youthful revolt and adult proposition that they could not live with- m^aise, the issue was de Gaulle—national out him (or, in the spirit of an earlier hero and legend. He chose to draw it that ruler's phrase, "L'etat, c'est moi"). The way. answer, despite de Gaulle's domination of .Amid all the uncertainties of the im- the country's TV facilities ,and other mediate future, what most read as a vote propaganda instruments, was "Non" by a of no confidence in the longtime, 78-year- majority clearly decisive enough to smoth- old leader may curiously express a cer- er any talk of a recount. tain rebirth of self-confidence among It is hard to believe that de Gaulle Frenchmen. viewed' the elaborate, complex and, in Clearly many of them—including some many, respects, peripheral constitutional of his most dedicated past adherents—no reformsThe had urged as crucial to French longer believe that Fidnce is doomed to survival. Rather he appears to have felt • civil war and national disaster without his the moment had come for a final massive omniscient presence. There may even be a reafCirmation of faith in the mystique of , sense that "Papa's" long reign has stifled his rule. Indeed, in this lonely aftermath the emergence of younger leaders and of defeat, he may still cherish the notion fresh approaches. that ensuing discord and disorder will While yesterday's news contains the once again prove him indispensable and elements of tragedy always associated invite a grand, climactic return to power. with the decline of a strong, proud man, But while the explanations advanced it hardly portends the fall of Frauoe. Many for his defeat are a combination of varied species of demagogue will seek to fill the discontents, there is an aspect of some ,vacuum. But his departure may also set ,, finality in the results. He imparted that the stage for new, affirmative political -tofte to^ the "event by his pledge—quickly beginnings in a time of worldwide ferment. MONDAY/ APRIL 28, 1369 * . •"• "i

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Jt^ W ^ r Feagh:he graffiti5' proposed bf He Gaulle would have Cn'th'e walls and sidewalks of'I^aris reduced 'the anti-Gaullist Senate' to years, that's endugh,'" thfe status of a cbnsultative assembly r ,"" n 's ", —? ^scarcely a.,,measure to enhance The words-Siyere at once an expres-^ b _n-jof political oppo^Sitfon, 7tp Gen, "paj-ticipa,twn " Chiles de Gaulle, president of Eranc^ ..And since votes of the Senate can 'si||cVl9^8, andean accurate prophecy already be overridden inA fairly short oi| Jhlngs Jtp Cpme. t ^^ order fbyt the National Assembly, 1 Lasl 'Mfht De Gaulle ireiagngd fi$" wfitch'j^ firmly under the control of it^bp|?ariie evidetit that the proposed' the* Gaulhsts, the general had no coAs'fetpljon.al changes/on which hg pressing needj 4or .this proposed S^dlstafed"his pohjacaf fortunes had change. -* g§be*to, defeat at th:et hands of the Last night de/ Gaulle's chief lieu- vp^ers ofFrande-. tenant, .Premie/ Maurice Couve de Murvjjle, sorrowfully told the nation 'JlEi^tdTians >of the future may sttg- x gest that De G^uile, at 78l( was fin- that "a new chapter had been opened ished,, politically even if hej had Hot in France's histoiry" And so, barring a political miracle, it has. The man woiffd'have tbppled-one^way or who engineered France's historic dis- 'within., a 'short^time ^— for- engagement from^Algiers^and jijgt a wa$ unquestionably awash year ago restored order to a gnevous-K disconterit over his domestic ly divided nation has seemingly reached the end of. the political road. Yet tliere wa£ tremendous irffliy-m De Gaulle said before the ballot- tS^factJjhrat he went dowfrto defeat ing'that the French people would act <5^sr propb^ls which'had-'little oft the out of "recklessness" if they voted grafid^ur fbr wKitth Ke was justifiably agauist his proposed constitutional redoSvned. changes Couve has now echoed this Last Spring^ m the wake of stu- statement wjth the ^prediction that labdr Violence,-De Gaulle France is in for a,"difficult period, nation "a society of par- perhaps a period of trouble" He " in which, he implied, Hhe could "very well "be- right, notwith- influence of the Bureaucratic central standing the ""response of Socialist gdyer-nltoent would be greatly dimin^ I leader Guy Mollet that "if there are ish'e^ in favor of greatly augmented^ disturbances in the street, we shall regiottal-power.'But the constitutional* know from whonxthey come," alterations offered to theyoters Sun-,,_ , In any event, as the nation pro- day did uot actually go-very'far They ceeds with the task of finding a suc- •tyolild haye'lef t the all-important tax- cessor'to "Le Grand Charles," Couve's pn-Sjpower firmlyunder the control of assessment of this colossus of French the central government, a^id Avould history^ will not be successfully actuilly^haYe vested ^ greater powej challenged: in -thi proposed 22 "PatJsUppfiinted prefects than tHe" tieao^'^f * '5G«n 'de Gaulle was at the center eflt 96 departments, or of f our political "and national life, re- establishing peace.*. Restoring" the': y 1 ^ ' ^ ^ * <\ U J ! y a companion change state, affirming the stability of power,''s ' J? i_ ~Ht. \-ti a tiSJ HEW YORK TIMES, teA^ 4,9-69 -^^KcSJ^ ey Is Awaiting a Retiremen/• T > . ;; *>,-« ••; t

By LLOYD GARRISON the war she has ordered by the result s were called but'.b; y . SpwW to Tht ,S«w York'.flmM^ phone, qr has sent her'house- a clerk: , keeper to Colombey's only Oui: 158. ' COLOMBEY-LES - DEUX- grocery.' ' Npn: 21. EGLISES, France, Monday, While General de Gaulle's •'Genera} de Gaulle's chauf- April 28 — As General de home town was almost solid- feur, .Paul Foltemil, jotted Gaulle received word that his ly behind him, the slight down the figures, rushed out referendum had lost, there decrease in the number of .without emotion and drove was no question in France as those voting for him here up the hill with the news. to where he would settle offered an early indication of Despite the percentage of down. trouble. ' those voting "oui," there The 18-room house on a The-de Gaulles voted in the Were official' frowns all small, walled-in estate here small stucco town hall short-- around. One Coiombey offi- has been his base and politi- ly before noon. The general cial kept'-Insisting to news- cal retreat for more than 30 wore a gray suit and Mrs. de men: :"Remember, Coiombey years. It is here that he will Gaulle & bright, plum-colored is not France*'" retire, most probably to t de- spring dressf , A few years ago, the only vote himself ,to writing, a The general .'stumbled at people in. "Coiombey who new and final installment to the top of the narrow wood- voted against 'the Gaullists ,his memoirs. en stairs leading to the vot- were the Down's four Commu- The vote stunned Colom- ing hall on ithe second floor, nists. Then after the May bey, a quiet farming commu- then recovered his balance student rebellion and 'general nity of 380 people about 180 with the help of an aide and strike, 14 voters casts their miles southeast of Paris. Al- promptly cast his ballot. He t 'ballots for anti-Gaullist can-, though no one here could say walked /out three minutes didates in the National As- that they knew him well, old- later, waved to reporter$,3Jjd' i senibiy ejections last" July. * er residents remember1 the photographers,1 and drove *A#',fhe botfom of .the hfil, general's unescorted walks with his wifel back to his 4lTyearrold, Pierre '.Grepen/ through the town and neigh- house. owner of one of Colonibey's boring fields-when he was a Just about everyone of vot-* two cafes, was disconsolate. young, pre-World War- II ing age was on hand in the "It's only- the y6ung who , "army officer. In-those days hall at 6 o'clock last night don't like, the genera:!,"; he' Mrs. de Gaulle used Jo do her when' .the ballots' were said, pouring1, own shopping in, town. Since counted. Teh minutes later, third glass'bf the 8'

~ ' ' pu'-co ^a,hs ^'Unusually Somber Paris Says * By JOHN L. HESS Seeds! to The New York Tlraw "France is not made for "I exclude that altogether," PARIS, Mohday, April 28— dictatorship. It's Monsieur Mo the Senator replied. Frenchmen were finding it hard who is going. Who will come "I think the campaign 'has to believe early this morning in. now? A centrist, I suppose created; a. new fact/' he said, that they had voted by a major- I don't think he'll be any better "the unity that built up from ity to retire President de But anyway he won't be under Giscard to Duhamel to a great Gaulle. the domination of an emperor.' „ A bearded young actor, the number of radicals." • .jParis, was unusually somber He referred to /the opposition More people than usual had only customer at -the bar : stayed home to vote, and week- agreed. "It's perfect," he sale to the referendum posed "hy> end/, traffic .,was!^vfell.-l3elow gloomily. Asked why there was Valery Giscard D/Estaing/head" normal. But neightfbfhood bars lip celebration, he replied, "be- of me". rndeperidfent Republi- cause there's nothing behind i it cans;. Jacques" Dwiafiiel, head were largely deserted last eve- of th'e Center ^enipcraiid'biocr" ningj an;tgift..::i

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Large business corporation !ly is'gone—must have been depleting their fran deposits, .. while individua less be reckoned the most Frenchinen, despite tough?'ex important event in Western* change controls^ have been Europe,for years. * " * smuggling banknotes out of thi British feelings, mixing ex- countay. citement and apprehensionijWiH Confidence has declined be- cause of continued deficits in be duplicated to a large extent the French. • balance cff pay in Brussels, headquarters of the merits since general strikes European i Economic Communi last May and June thatbrough •y Gaullist opposition to^politi- a rise :ih .wages'and the United States, the Bonn Gpvernmeht refused to revalue during the crisis last -toy, •- - ' ' - - • 1 ISoth ^th? tUnlted States , Britain '— and the othey«coun'- tnes of * Western Europe i TT would want'any devaluation of the franc to be by a relatively modest amount, first agreed Upon, in discussion. Bonn Issues Statement , The pne, European f-Gov^rn- Imsnt o that issued a »formal statement by'iyay of rpactiop, early tpday was West Ger- many's GUntertDiehl, the chief spokesman in Bonn, said that General de Gaulle's decision removes a great statesman from the international scene',.' He added _," / I "West Germany'lsi |j\ debt tp Charles de Gaulle Be e tabhshed West French friendship,, 1nd, of the change of majorities1 and governments, as" an" elemental mcredlent of {he common Eu- ropean policy of p, eaee'" ^' «ern\an 'ffnancial circles ejb pres^eoj on,e opinion that will b8"share'd,''Wdely in Washing- ton.jLondon and elsewhere The French situation will increase pressurevfor an upward revalua. tion of Hip mark Last year, When tthe. franc was m trouble, 'finance"1 mln- Jsters and central bankers* rpi Jhe heading western, fhiancial ppwers met in Bonn. The West Germans came under strong urging"to raise th,5 mark's value bit resisted it < - ' 'instead, the Bonn Govern, ment agreed to f certain tax changes to discourage exports But the "West German, trade Balance continued ;to be so fa- vqrable-'that the countries with contmumg^deficlts still feel the mark, should be, Devalued to make West German exports more.-.ejtpensive. NEW YORK TIMES,, Monday, 28 April 1969

MOREFLEXMTY : IN FRANCE IS SEEN

U.S. Officials Expect Cain for European Unity ..., Dsais Not Expectei^;1;'; jfre/prms Were Popular, vUaited States-offitiials do-not By PETER GROSE e;3^ec^;:P.resident:.N.ixon .to. rush Special to Th« N«w YorJt Times But Raised Side Issues in .'with liewlfrprppqsals from WASHINGTON, Monday, April Washington, forr .the future or- 28—The Nixon. Administration - •• .Special tO;The New Yor/c Times. ganization of Europe. This, they started preparing yesterday and r. "P.ARIS;''"April 27—The ^de- feel,.would only .invite criticism early today for .quiet consulta- feated French plan 'to distrib- of linseemly,meddling in Euro- tions among the Western Eu- ute some I of the powerpfYthe pean affairs.'and tould even he ropean allies i about future - central .Government among cited as justification for Gen- move? toward European unity the/regions.- of.'Frajice was a eraKde Gaulle^sigftistated belief with a post-de Gaulle French popular one. But:in detail, as tliat'.:.,.Wes,ter.n.,fgu.rope,,was jn submitted to"tlie citizenry, it dange.r pf" falling jn%3r| .Ameri- Government. can "hegemony." . K,r; , ' No immediate shifts in 'raised issues that cost, the: ; .Government-votes. • '•- •• , Moving much inprg.,, slowly French policies toward the ; 'andy Tsubtly, Ad.pinistrati'ori of- United States or the North 'The city-of Nancy;> a..Gaul- r v Atlantic Treaty Organization lisKstronghold,. :voted 30,307 ficial^ --..expect:' to . encourage are expected as a result of against the reform to 20,698 oth^i; .European ; governments President de Gaulle's resigna- in favor—possibly because- a to ralfe. their"t own initiatives tion. rival city, /Metz, had been toward reviving the mbmeritum designated •ov.er Nancy as ' of Eurtfpeari unity, which Presi- But United States officials derit de Gaulle had successfully believe that, with the general capital of the region of Lor- : in retirement, even loyal Gaul- raine-.'IVfetz votetf for the re^ stalfed/ "• '• .••'•''" ,. Jists will gradually show more form; 24,966 to 17,322, but The 'chances are considered the ..•regime suffered a sub- good that by, the fall signs ot flexibility toward Britain and a new: French' attitude will be other countries seeking closer stantial net loss in the dis- : pute* v visible. . :-L ••'••-" economic and political relations ."he complex reform meas- After years of "ill feeling be- with the European Common Uie i.'uaid have been . sub- tween the French arid American Market. • • '• mitted to the' overwhelmingly Governments, the gerteral's de- There was no immediate offi- - Gaullist.. National. Assembly, parturer comes at a time when cial reaction from the White where it- .would have,been ap- cordial personal rapport be- House or State Departemnt on proved with little, opposition. tween the F;rench and'American the outcome of the French President de :G. a'ulle',. howey.eri, •' Presidents has been restored. referendum and President de insisted that it Vf&s'ai, measure''•-: Mr.' Nixon's' European- tour in Gaulle's subsequent resignation. of great, .,„ importance that ':• February had been largely de- A Period of Transition signed- around his eagerness to build- a ••personal relationship After the coming few weeks with -the: 787year-old general of political transition in France Subsequent comments" on1 both —and diplomats here are braced 1 sides made ,it :clear .that this for what they believe may be effort had been successful. a stormy election campaign— But United. •States 'officials •the Administration intends to believe that, the improvement explore gently in various allied in. French-American relations is capitals to discover any new based on much .more :than per- avenues toward the elusive sonal --ra^prt ..at • the. .top and goal of European unity. that, in ; fact this -improvement General de Gaulle's personal was starting ,t oevolve as long predilections - have long been as a, year ago.. . . ' -: considered the main roadblock The heat:"had:-.been taken -out regime. NEW YORK TIMES, Monday, 28 April 1969

Speolll to Th« New York Timw crisis in Algeria. "French Gov- deveiqmnent of '.fre'nch lie membership';. In the European allies as \veft as emment..pffi<:es:. in Algiers had __...».:»H«TMj-Vi».*UA:n Commoiv*'Market: in January, States.. He icouIdS .came 4ft power-but her ' PARIS, April 27—The French been seized by European set- frustrated bid' to., enter into a 1863.;He foUowed"-quickly with for trymg to: irh] rhwas' ;^resk-. and there.-' ; pvfernment was in chaos when tlers ther.§,, aided.by. the mill- "directorate". withi.,th«s United negotiation of 'a .treaty ot J ation;,^fte: r l}e. devalued' ' relations. NorS did;hl^Commpn;: harles de Gaulle assumed tary>. ., . ,. ' - -. . .. Statesi';:and Brita|a«ajjd'-:bx'vthe cooperation with" France's in; -l!S58,;;ithe'.ifoano long! was ' traditional \enemy, -the GerMarke- t partners: .giihlc:,he'w?s iwer 11 years ago, and.saw.as O.n May 19 Jie declared, atja detonationoJ f herijlrstanuclear all wrong: in /vetoing,; Britain^ ---''-^ln*,the Sahara* Febru,. mans,. \ •'. ~ • .. . " T- T-J— 'l."J.. -. ' ''•... .. ranee. .,'/ \ news conference, "I stand ready : : ^rst memi In those 11 years ithere was to take-over the powers of the In the same year he refused .But, he "always.;i;seem'ed to brief and violent .outbreak!,.outbreak!1; ooff .pepubjic,"'. And -two frantic .the 1962 accords ,at to sign -the, treaty'banning all ' " ir4... .;..jjt.jTrBjr;...:^-;>S •••'•;' • Evian ..lei'.Bains which"gave but underground nuclear tests, seekrouti the inpstjii.pffer ierieralitle igaulle suffered a ' laps .-last May and JuneSwiien weeks later — on June 1 — he' possible modes at ietipn.;: ., Bjp!un;e3tpec:tE.d' setb'ack -in'- »';'*. students'' 'an'dv 'workers was-rinstalled as Premier. Algeri; a .independence and ended rejected the- United States pro- r the war, • Gaulllsm was-, freed no acts were more^pffensive'tq i5^,vgieni^,failed,t ; o win• on ' •ought the Gaulllst.: r^gh^e, Vltj is \still debated, in. France ; posal to integrate allied mili- the United .S.tates'-tKgri'iiii theS»;,£ir||i $a;nftt in. presidential • - s sar collapse. But bncefmqrB,' whether'.^ his. resumption tp. ituiii;ito. other, business. tary -forces, and began -liis at- ; ""•Vlhe^first item was a change tacks on the United States for on the gold stpcksiatlFprt eltctipns;.:ifle;.j.ilought 'baolc dts- i le Gaiillist magic worked and1 power was brought - abgufe'Siy and his ouster of Upjted'StaSti ' '"""Je changed his.:ta,ctics.: •der was restored 'in; the wake an . organized righfcwing' .plot iri-'the--.method ,of selecting ,a the war in Vietnam. forces, from France.,:^, \,.;i Ideij.' to step, .down'-' ' a landslide victqry in Pr,esldei}ti, .by direct popular ';*He opened 1964 with recogni- E L l : —in effect, a coup 'd'etat—or fie "'. Gaulle's enjije iedestal .afid..he- onamall Selections.e1firflons.' • < ' ' • was/an'.inevitable respprise.,J:a' vote?'-instea1 d of by "grand tion of Communist China. 1 electors,' . General de Gaulle policy could be'^l'" imi;(^::thft first tim^ in the i It can 'thus be said that a the/needs pf the moment ,'S' In that year he suffered his this w.ay: Withdraws. iaa 'and a - ajor- distinction .of 'the genei\ ; proposed; that the; pepple them- Ior '^*-*--\e-rsthe;jbrigitis of hU selves'-ypte 'pa-this change,..bhy only known, hospitalization, ' military organization of- ._ . r dimensions. : .'s regime was that It gave the .,,,-„. _;?;wasSs?cDpip;iete""from referendum, • thus : skirting 'thi!f*e «*Virostate'operation, .and- —* ' " "' "" ' :pfy* He„. ,,,_,„..—:,flaunted his.'age; ha - juntry stability. the -start. As Premier'-he "was National -'Assembly's- constltu-. aVmonth later for-a" eyen.'^iscaiide'd his makeup for - :In the fivecj years-before the vesteted with authority -to- riile tibnal^prerogative of-amend- tour of Latin America u1" to pr J^froBi 'all teliylsipn^appeafances. , eneral's return, France had by decree for'-'sjx 'months^dur- would have exhausted a much directions • -of..' 'theatcpmpass,'/, ••Tfierefrwas a seccind;''seven--' ine governments. In half a ' which a new republican meijt..' .-:•'. •-., ( man,. condemnation 6f Arflerican'ppli. jntury France :had'been Heva- Constitution —: France's fifth— ' ' Assembly, infuriated, anor^dramatia-setbaek.-.ia^May; ' :.ated by World'War I, hurt by was to be prepared, voted to. ''.^'ensure • the new Annoying Streak oies in Southeast A"s)a; 'insist- of'r:last^year when," behind- -Jus ,e depression, .overrun once Government.; under, • Georges ence on a return todthe gold backus.twas.on,a';State visit to 1 : The new charter was the Pompido.u and,: threw., it: out He'was then 74 years old. standard; .opppsitionV.tp Aineri'- TeiheeanJ. the'Students'took over lore ,-in Wbrld War -n and foundation, .of the de General 'de Gaulle.retaliated.by De Gaulle watchers, Including investmentj! s 1 . ' as • underminingthe.-stjieetSi.of Paris--and a.gen- rained thereafter by prolonged Gaull..e. regime.: Above all, it calling a .new election, which the Central Intelligence :Agericy, European independenpe; rejec? erll; strike paralyzed most -of. v •ars,;1 in, ;.two1 . colonies-*—Indo; - established^ a powerful .gresi- retuned a majority. ' '-In the looked for signs.of senility. But tion of British memlaership -IJft^hn "ee .cbuntry; -,. '': r> ''*• hiSa arid Algeria/ ' : dency, effectively- reduced!'the meantime, he had'also:won the all they could find was'jjjs ob- the Commoni'Marketiiand. ayer- ..Her •pppulatiorf,"40:5~ million, National Assembly from gov- referendum on' direct presi- viously failing eyesight, which tures to Eastern Eurppe. and the •as the same in,1958i as.it was erning body to ribber stamp dential'--election: : had become so bad that some- .Soviet Union. ,.-'.. and all .but extinguished the times he sho.ok hands ,with his : television, -a huge 'Gaullist 'dem- -q The stability of Gaiillism in Mixed Relations bodyguards while plunging his All this, Gaullists; say, was otistrafiotf'-Mbng^the' €harhte^ 2 Senate. . , "f not directed agamstsjthe II' ,- istori.c..perspeo.tiye;can be seen The terms were dictated for General de Gaulle had not pear-shaped hulk into crowds o i: s' a rare period in which 1 •na- cheering Brazilians or French- States,, only against ;,its"'hege: - Jhreatf of . radioal- rev61utlon:' to -) Charles.de Gaulle by Charles failed =to stir, up his.- interna* monyi" *•' rpnce had peace and prosper- de-'Gaulle, andoinder'its terms tional delations hi the earlie•Heir men or other hosts. ; swing- the-i tide "4ack to General :y-Bnd.:a; growing, if controver- His trip to Latin America, a People Not Offended "'ull8*wJ: (ii»th?'eleaUoh5'tri..l ial, role in .world -affairs. The he was promptly elected for a years—refusing, for example, to "< P| June. ••"" •'•-*•>•• ---.a seven-year term, and-re-elected pay United Nations-assessments sepa-parati e trip fi to Mexico, and the Most of this forei, ituation may have been un- Celebrated Vive Qu^bSc''Libre" it'-fft- :tha'-iwords ' of -terajer :i atural. " " i''•.-'•' for another term in 1965, for: the peace-keeping force-in celet failed to offend thi. . Premier" T3eorge • Pompldouj i The other significant develop- the Congo. But;.he"had~received trip' to Montreal tor Expo 67, people. In all prob|b(lltj the '"Things never" be -qultei ^ Algeria Roused Him ment ..of the brief premiership President Kennedy 'warmly., in were 'consciously made to flex masses gave them li{tle>thc ._ . 1961, and'shad ' publicly sup.French muscle near the United " • It'was. the-war in'Algeria that was a monetary and-economic' States. The offenses pf'G'auIiUsm 'to rought Charles de Gaulle out reform that culminated in "de- ported. the..TJnited States-, posl v the mass of frenchmen,were „„,, l.D.een-shSakesi, bigger-1 f retirement a.t ,h\s .country valuation of the franc at the 'tion in the Cuba missile crisis His-travels were part of'his-,ththee unending .stringency- of tb.e ...jn„g ...... 'fjight^pficap^taljrthen J om'e in Colbmbeyiles-Deux- end of the year and laid the of 1962. ': major foreign policy, objective government's economic-pblicies; a r : —to deflate 'the! overpowering The a. run'-;ftoro -tha • fraiic, -forcing'' glises. He had withdrawn from foundations from which Gen- . His s,tand on Cuba was al The French economy'needed'th: 'he G'pyernpent into htidget 1 ct.ive; political life .in. 1947 after eral de Gaulle was later to ways cited by,him and hi? sup- ^hegemony" of ,the Uniteveto t>f British macy,. annoying to 'tbar- failed him* ' > ' NEW.YORK TIMES, Monday, 28 April 1969 Interiftffif m Successor to cfe Gaull%Jf*je! f~ Alain Emile Louis Marie Poher

By .ANDREAS FREUND Emile Louis Marie Poher (the presidency would last a max- Spedal to The.New York Timw ,' '-.- name is pronounced po AIR.) imum of 35 days, within ARIS, Monday, April 28— It was a' low-key perform- which he would have .to, or- P Alain Ppher, who under ance, all .the more so -as Mr. ganize hew presidential elec-. the French Constitution, sue-: Poher appeared on the screen tions; But there is nothing ceeds General de Gaulle as , after Premier Maurice Couve in the Constitution that does, the president of France pend- de>. Murville. : And Mr. Couve not allow the interim Presi-' ing new elections, was hardly : de Murville, who is basically dent to run himself. more' than a name to most shy; tends to be solemn and 'Privately, Mr. 'Poher has Frenchmen until April 17. somewhat stilted. referred to Ms presidential : On; that day, -Mr./Poher's... / Mr> Poher appeared both possibilities as the third stage 60th birthday, French televi- , self-assured-;;and modest/ a of a rocket he is riding. The siori viewersVdis----'5 naturally nervous man, yet possibilities as the third stage : Man/ ''covered that ,he..- totally at ease,just chatting first two stages went off with- In the kad a. ^ace> a Per" with' friends.' While Gaullist out a hitch, he considers. . . . sbnality- and a-- •orators, as'the general does, They were'his electibnio the ;News voice. The voice, . :disdain recourse to notes, Mr. Senate in 1946 and .his pro- .•'•'.. very"softly, said-> Poher evert jafforded himself motion to the Senate presi- /'No." It was a "No" to Gen-- 'the luxury of occasionally dency-last year.: i : era! de Gaulle, pronounced fingering his: ' Mr. Pohen a mining engin- firmly but without passion by As if with regret, Mr. eer holding degrees in law a quiet Frenchman on the Poher said he could not ap- ond political science as ;well, country's television screens. prove General de Gaulle's was propelled into .politics Frenchmen, having had in planned reforms and that he by war and occupation. • One General de Gaulle a giant for would vote "No" in the ref- of the leaders of the resist- so long, have built up a erendum. Other Frenchmen, ance movement in Paris, he De Gaulle's Defeat measure of wistfulness for a he suggested mildly, should joined the Christian-Demo- mossr life-size leader. Mr. do the same. cratic Popular Republicans of General de Gaulle's resignation brings to a tragic Poher may fill that bill. Typical Educated Frenchman Robert Schuman at the end end an extraordinary era in French history. A leader That quiet Frenchman be- It would be difficult to of World War II. who saved his country twice—from the disgrace of gan moving into the lime- find a more typical middle- As chief of the personal military defeat in 1940-45 and from civil war in 1958 light/last Oct. 2, when he was aged educated Frenchman staff of Mr. Schuman, then elected to the presidency of than Mr. Poher. He is on the the Finance Minister, in 1946, —has been repudiated at the polls after eleven years the Senate. In the job, he small side and rather plump. Mr. Poher was enthused by of authoritarian rule. succeeded a much better- He has a thin mustache and his superiors dream of a unit- Historians may compare his ouster with that of known figure, Gaston Mon- wears his dark hair slicked ed Europe, which was to ma- nerville, an amiable black backwards. He has puffy terialize with the six-nation Konrad Adenauer, who overstayed his time, or that lawyer and amateur flute jaws and slanted eyes behind coal and steel pool a few of Winston Churchill, who was dismissed at the peak player from French Guiana, big glasses which he puts years later. of his powers. But the ironies of de Gaulle''s departure who had headed France's on, and off, and on again As a promoter of European from office in some ways are greater. second chamber for 21 years. while he talks, and he talks unity, Mr. Poher spent years Early in the Fifth Republic, fast, so fast at times that commuting between Paris, Undoubtedly, he had overstayed his time, as the Mr. MonnerviJle, a liberal, words stumble over each Brussels, Luxembourg, Stras- May-June stakes last year demonstrated. But, with fell out with the President, other, while he stresses bourg and Rome, so much so his incredible resilience, he had rebounded and elected and General de Gaulle with points with Gallic gesture that the Pohers—he has been the first one party majority to the National Assembly him. of arm, hand, and eyebrow. married to the former Henri- When Mr. Poher's election He exudes benevolence and spend all their vacations at in French history. He had long feared that his mental became known, observers shrewdness, and petulance ette Tugler for 30 years- powers would deteriorate in office and that none of shrugged their shoulders. Ob- and humor. home, for a change. Home his supporters would have the courage to tell him. viously, they said, Mr. Poher, Mr. Poher has the Harry is at Ablon-sur-Seine, near elected as he was with Gaul- Truman touch, an American Orly Airport, of which Mn In the event, he went down with his faculties unim- list support, would be the suggested. To many French- Poher is MayOr. paired, fighting a quixotic battle he need not have general's man and play ball men, he was reminiscent of He has three hobbies: play- undertaken, a battle for marginal political reforms with the regime. such other average French- with his three grandchildren, demanded neither by the nation nor by his followers, On that television program, men as former Premier An- the children of his only which opened the campaign toine Pinay, -the bourgeois daughter, Marie-Agnes Jous- but on'y by his own pride. for a national vote on re- idol, and the well liked late saint; collecting books on The very sense of mission and hauteur'that enabled gional reform and trans- President Ren6 Coty. French history, particularly him twice to take the country in hand, and to identify formation of the Seriate, the According to the Constitu- the middle ages; and postal country discovered Alain tion, Mr. Poher's interim stamps. himself with Joan of Arc and with France itself, are -what, in the end, brought him down. The device—the referendum—that he inserted into the Constitution to assure plebiscitary rule should a traditionally divided France fail to provide him with a Parliamentary majori- ty;,, :became the weapon that tripped him up when, possessing a Parliamentary majority, he employed it unnecessarily. '• • . . The question-now is whether Gaullism goes put with de Gaulle or whether the impending Presidential elec- tion will return a Gaullist successor anyway. Theoreti- cally, the General could run again himself to seek vindication. More likely, former Premier Georges Pom- pidou will become the Gaullist standard-bearer^ But the General's rule was so personal that it is a misnomer to. Ijalk of GaullisriT without de Gaulle. Whether Pompi- •'.efoi|;6r:;.an opposition leader is elected, a new period,is, opejiihg-that cannot fail to • 'febtli within France and in 1 1 -•'^*iiiaw^i!^&iiJii?i^!y;'8!»J. ^^^^^M^g^pi •' lllste^lllH

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' ^-* catastrpphe.'Thislstatemen': t Kad ptrikesi !;i}ecM:iii]^il the .Premier, wjio', 1 been effective"-~--'-----•—'-- ' O"-n ^thi'plani by the President The OJJI have as 'a country of 50 mil- For more than a week he lion. Whatever his persona] In-1 remained silently to Elysee. politics!' the f , • at: tfon feared this could m clinations, the new President, palace and., his Premier,men'have-been -for the::Elect gisnt step toward dictat lacking-this .stature, is apt to b Georges PompldPu, fought the the - state-, .of econpn)io,ssi Pompidou", wa 'Mr. Poher's. task-will-be more-'pliable to France's allies. battle for' .the Government'. since last fall. Prices'.BaVEsiiR— Naz'aire, Brltta! . By HEN^$:aNNE.fi ; ' ; organize presidential elept Many Frenchmen, both When he came out of his isola- up stdeply. The unionss^verejoYra..^^^^** : ; . • l-SpeclaltoThe-Hew'i to De_held np sooner than here 'In the provinces, seemed tion, the President was able to blocked by the .Gpvernme.nt 6n'l had.,.anB8unced PARIS, .Monday., April; .23-;-' numbednumDea.. mThee .•o.^rea:defeatf .o,ufi thuiec call.the nationCto order in one days or later than 35 days frp .- Tf^._>. 1 it. Charles de GauUe sfeppedVd'ovm' reguae'mnd the, resignation o* OJ1|J*jangrr yo^.yyi." speech, •".—, butfr. .his power today 1 was never .the same again. ;e"arly today afteiMnoBe'.llian-10. the_ President, were events of •"""•««'«»-some-aesin. ' (' The , interim. . Presi such magnlfad- 'that most ' .fllime'ana aging were alspj years' 'as President- 'bftta'nceV powers are^limited He o'an Frenchmen, had doubted that factprs. 'Although the Presi- He acted after his regime::suf- dissolve the Government or they could^oceur. dent's sevenryeur term ran fered .a numbing, 'defeat in. fc National As embly and he> "Voting ag^nst de Gaulle to,•until; 19,72,: gradually more and force him to .step down, is .'-like more-'Frsnchftien.had accepwd lieferendurn. '_ _ .•. . ['' not asjt for a vote of. cpnfid ; :-' •Tif,5Si::sta'te'men't' issued- by his patricide for-,most of us,V. f the thought;<:misgivings. "This -time I'm voting 'no'—aridI general's followers; ' 'as-r-pfe'sitient of the Republic? perjod j * *> • •SX''Gau'Uist- successor- has •Fh'is'iSetision--takes effect't.odajr I'm voting -with conviction for : : It was the Presidents pel?^ the first time," he s'aid:~'"' '• beeh-- waiting-in- the. wings -for S-:n|on;'V '' ' •'."'-' ••'. sonal decision to call (he nation^ But he thumbled.,and' ch the; Wst ^imViaMr^ampidoB: I -.Ttie'annc-Uncement was.made'- lo trie polls Se\eral of -jhts . the subjectrwhen'he'.was'- inqn... : : would-be a candidate for the a- few miiutes past midnight; whether he would vote "no** h wuuiu u^ «. A.L«.«.™^. Cabinet ministers Sand leadirig he knew that his vote would he Presidency. In .subsequ '(7vp;.'M.; \yeyi_ York tune).'. ;TH4- Gaulhst ppliticians had aflviseSf decisive in1 forcing President de ments he disclaimed any inten: general, waa-at his country resji; strongly against it S " Gaujle-out.,.~ "•---' . :, *•'—!( of wanting to nudge 'Gen Hence-'-at: Colombey-les-Deui-' general has frequenta. Mariy-Fi'en'climen would gifee 1 5 -out' .of office : Eglises;-;Wb,eire; lie traditibnaUy* ' aeasonS" fpr the .general's ivotes.;:,::-::::/ • ' '';'.- m is soli ;.;;; • M.ogt yotes-Counted •;: ^.Jn^r^j^^ieis.^'...^^:!!™!};: Jean sFsrriiptiTsaid: 'IastS5weefc: Maic'elUn;, announced i, at' 1:20; "Thetgeneral ;nee'd.sia'Bew cor- |^SB^wi!K.'^Tdut::470;0(iOi onatip'n. • every ^^rwp- prAi-.three Vote"s;i'';accpunted'^for^-t^e:.:!G'pv^ ••years.'" ' ,-,-••''.' sSfite'rit's till,"for cpnstitutionilp Although" the real issue in : |4fpffrffha^'lbJefe56]^ctea :^'b,y^ the voting- was Presiden1 t de SZ;8|:fpeiv ''deiffiS 'pf/[ife ..iyp tej's.; Gaulle, the technical issue was : ; f : an ambitious" • refprnl of the i|;| sfir)g' -vdid»'b ai^tlji^Tn^ :^ffi Constitution.' ".-I ' '. '''' '^fa^i;e.d:jpyJ:|7^,^eE^eMj Under.the,proppsed constitu- r|^lS;S^y>d;«t^SnejraJ&f| , tional reforms; .the new French! ffie^spSgariiJ^^esigijatalft* Tegfons^K>u)d.>haye grouped the! |g|f|tl|;tefilPSffd^ts'"ani||:Bs: .e'jjisUpg. 96 £epar'tments of Uylet-: ippojitaii! Franeefintp umWof c'bmiripn" 'historical"1 tradition with' new regional, assemblies "£^ef~''demons'1:rlitqiiis3^l%^8i'._.e^^gjE§^^i^^-i handling local,social and ecp> Champs-ElysSes! • 'i''••'•SS^'[ nomic:affairsinstead;of the pre. jpremiei;. RJaurice. 'leouyejjae; fects who now represent .'the : central Gpyernmeiit in each de^ Sfuryilie? . cpijejded'-iefeal'. sjf$f, partment.. ^ 'b^ofe;:iri;ast,:-;^s-;itii|ri; The Senate,-the cpiirjtry|siseq; ond legislative chamber;'which |g^.^o^y^ei^^i^p||icjpseji^te-1:::^^;^:^'"^.:;^^^ is now-composed of 274 r^ern- bers chosen -.individually-, -iby iW^P^Ws "grand .electors.l'iwas'J.tpJjhave ^;^m^i?M^ been; \transfprrned''intipVav'c'on. ,m^^s^^^m sultatlve ,'• council1-- '.representing ^|ul%^y^f the proposed 'new regional: as- semblies on the national level. The 487-member Natlonfal As,. sembly wag to have remained I unchanged. President-de Gaulle.-was.-un- der no compulsion to hold the subm referendum::;He«pul'd.have;s'erit the reform bill to the Assembly,! where the"outcome'would-haVg- 'been favorable'to the fli ment,- sjrice 'the C an overwhelming seats. \t,, ,' ' • . •• .: iri'.. tilast .appeal night, thr'78-year-old1 :«&»!' asked,-his countrymen eAV^''b' show pf/confidence''tlji permit him ' ~l% ' terft, which student ajid worker figure emirifintiy acceptable to wage intreases^ Small Inde- 'of last May was "the many meriibers of the middle pendent merchants have felt I of the end," many class and the business com- discwmmated against since the fazaire* -, Brittany, ,-this.jaornjdg came out of his isola- up steeply. The unions were eyen before President^ Gaulle President was able to blocked by the Gpvernmerit ori had announced his resignation faation to order in one seech1; but his power if'thi same again. ap'd, aging were also* Although the Presi- eVen-ye^r term ran '2, gradually more < Igphinep had accep igtjt that some time cSuntry would h£ve to Dutfhim. The issue -of on thus 'lost much of or it%ad, held for/ the \ folldwers. 7 , s_atilli£i successor .Jias Utfng-in the wings for t< ' fof the |ub|tequent st'ate- ;|a^l any inten- ?|p: nudge Gen- '-put' pf office is a solid mil' iu' where.the outcome would have ' been favorable1 to the Goverfi ment, since the Gaullists an overwhelming majority.o In a last appeal Friday night, the 78-year-old general asked his countrymen '•'-'- "'" show of confidence" " permit him to , term, which ~~'~' in 1972. "If I am fey aiinajbri the: voters, 1 ere'ise my: Before he rumors that defeat andv:dL before the. vote!) step down, T"' been his last c tary grand ei^it«' ..,.. . Given his personality,' caT analysts consider; it; , ceiyable that, • having resJgiiedi he may return once more^as a candidate for the presidency. '-. The Premier pledged 'that-his! Government would continue." do its duty during " predicted WASHINGTON POST, Tuesday, 29 April

Joseph Kraft * . '. r Fall of President de Gaulle Is No Tragedy for France OSTAPOLEON, asked at the elections last year. A ma- diversion^ W i.t h his de- zenith of his power what the chine, a political machine, parture, the President will reaction would be when he has been created to do what have that must less rea- son for riot Coring in on the fell, replied: "They'll say : in the past could only, be ness that conforts him — 'Oof.'" And "oof" seems done by The Man. Arid the peace in Vietnam and arms about the right reaction to maker and manager of -that control talks 'with the Soviet the 'fall of General de machine, former Premier Union. Gaulle. Georges Pompidou,, now People who like to have history in our time, will no It is an event filled with comes forward as the lead- '•doubt miss General de the stuff, of normality—not ing candidate to succeed de Gaulle, and lament the re- of tragedy. It marks- a re- Gaulle as President in ttie: version to the boring, old turn to routine and regular- election next month. problems of yesterday. But ,how bad would it really be ity. It closes a parenthesis, No doubt the vicious, and if the tired lull that has to use one of the General's chaotic in-fighting charac- marked the first hundred favorite metaphors, on high teristic of French politics days of the Nixon Adminis- drama. will assert itself in;time. But tration were internation- alized. 'But maybe the time Trance now resumes anew for the immediate future, is right for practical solu- the dreary search for a there is a right-center ma- tions to concrete difficulties French mode of self-govern- jority in France—particu- —bread; not circuses. ment. Western Europe picks larly if M. Pompidou can PiIbUshers- up again the labor of achiev- strike an alliance with for- ing more cohesion. And, in mer Finance Minister Valey the-United States, the Nixon Giscard' d'Estaing. Arid for 'the long run, as the Coirimu- Administration loses one\ nist part becomes more and , more of the divertissements 'more domesticated, there is that has tended to keep it even the possibility of, a re-: from addressing its truly se- gime built around:the-alter- nation of a few—and maybe rious business. even two—maj or parties. Providing the first nerv- With respect to European ousness over the franc can cohesion, the departure of, .be got. over, the outlook for de Gaulle is an evident France is not- at all bad: pick-up. Good Europeans all General de Gaulle had'ruled over the Continetnt—forced into hiding by the General's by a tactic of moral terror-;; attitude—will now; take a ismi "Me or chaos" was the ' new lease on life. In France choice he regularly offered the trend towards a politics the French people in elec- of interest, and away from a politics of personality, will tions,and referenda. inevitably yield a more When the peril was su- friendly attitude/toward the preme, ":they accepted the other western nations. / General ; overwhelmingly. THE FIRST efforts at Thus in 1958, with the colo-; : more cohesion are apt to be nels' from Algeria threaten- small. Grandiose plans .for ing a military takeover of federation are not going to surface for a long time—if France, the General won 79 ever. But a joint effort to per cent of the vote in a na- help France over, the pres- tional referendum. . ent financial troubles seeihs _i_._l! ,/i?.T_'_-I^_ ._-.*-_ »..i_-_ i* .1 :-__'ji__. JO; '. ". 'By Anatole Shjib. ed for Washington Post Staff Writers ,'iiy affect the foup-p:ower MOSCOW,. April 28—The News Analysis , I talks on the Wideast at the So'vlBt con- Soviet Union maintained j United Nations. These talks', fessions.';TIie. Italians a stiff upper lip over the future; especially if next J. ironically, were suggeste^t - «,. I - v..,ir^.-.-r!r§^ies.. and:;. a • summit Gatfile, Outmost foreign ob- should, be won (as paris ob- ] cepted by the KremKn. "'"'"'"' .conference recently.rescJied- ratiota of full. Czechoslovak servers.; agree ;that it could servers consider likely). by at appeared they mightfl uled-fpr. June 5, The election sovereignty. • not" hjive, /been more badly , Georges Pompidou or a cen- a format for influencii)| . will ispotiight the French Czechoslovak sovereignty. timed; f or *he Kremlin. ... . trist, figure. ... ' Communist Party at" a time The election of Pompidou . United States' to. exer%?i>|ejs- or almost any non-Commu- T-here was ho official com- ' Fairly rapid change in sure en Israel. Frenctiifgf when it is delicately poised France's posture toward the.. Between the pro - Moscow nist candidate requiring the meiit bere; and .Soviet news: turn to the proJsraeJi stamp votes of the "European" ' mecija .-confined themselves Middle East is ' expected that existed in Paris between camp and such independent •after the election. Pompi- .parties as the Italian' and moderate center may also be to .Reporting 'the facts -and 1950 and 1967 would tilt 'the expected -to produce greater ecKdiijg' statements: being dou and other, GauUists, as •balance of the talks to the' 'Finnish, which have been well as the 'centrist and critical of Soviet conduct in French receptiveness toward made by the French Com- disadvantage of the" Soviet Prague. international monetary co- munist Party, and affiliated socialist parties, were .criti-. • Union and its Arab clients. cal of de Gaulle's sharp, turn Should the French Party operation, British entry into groups'iti Paris; Tie timing, of the election the1 Common 'Market and against Israel.iri.the. waTce of will also " indirectly ' affect be compelled^ by electoral However,. Kremlin poli- the June, 1967, war. considerations to display a other "issues Involving' the cies in several areas are.exj .S.p.yiet behjayjo^;.;in. :Cjaecho-, cohesion of the Western .The .change may result in ~: -^slcfyafcia. an"4'§l>i£ins.^0^0e:' more independent stance, the renewal of iFrench arms'.,^ agreement>...p:m,;any t h j n « community. On each of these •aid to Israel and will speeds^'- •megaia^fUSatllfiii, June'' issues, the Kremlin has' re- garded General de.-. Gaulle

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jiiit i 1 i . The Soviet amd French .. --, - .—W-T--M *—:'rvs *1y*j"i rM*«*u^y* Communist leaders; are also . and other Western, capitals.. opem to criticism Jwrn the ; With the prospect even be- Chinese and ' otiher ultra- fore de Gaulle's defeat that leftist Communists became France would play a more of their refusal to exploit normal and cooperative role last May's student riots andi' in the West, the Kremlin general strikes in France to ,•; would seem to be emerging a serious bid , for power. •;, from its ten-year courtship Most disinterested observers ? of the general with few real believe suoli a bid would", gains beyond some commeri- have been crushed by the\ cial credits and cultural a French . Army arnd tlhe coar.-s major political deal during servative maa'ority .of 'the V de Gaulle's June 1966, visit population, but that win not .', to the Soviet Union. prevent proiPeking and New ',' On that occasion, the Left groups from . accusing- Kremlin chiefs insisted on both Waldeck Roclhet, bead~' recognition of their East of .the French Communist •?* German regime as an arti- Party, amd Mps.eo.w,..-pf« ficial product of Soviet oc-i.' CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Tuesday, 29 April 1969

concerns ArabA -m s Israel jubilant over de Gaulle By a staff correspondent of Publisher-Editor Ghassan Tueni of Bei- Soviet polarization in the Middle East. The Christian Science Monitor rut's influential independent daily news- French experts in the Quai d'Orsay paper, Al Nahar, said those Frenchmen who were ordered to study possible solutions to Beirut, Lebanon are happy over General de Gaulle's defeat the Palestine question. The new emerging de Consternation in the 15 Arab countries and "should understand that we in Lebanon'and Gaulle position has been that since Pales- jubilation in Israel marked the news of the Arab world look at de Gaulle's loss as tinian Arab nationalism is at the heart of President de Gaulle's resignation. our-own." the conflict, November, 1967, United Na- Diplomats here were concerned that the The conservative paper, Al Jarida, de- tions Security Council resolution has be- veteran French leader's disappearance from come inapplicable because ,it. .does, not deal, scribed the general's resignation as "a pain- 1 the world political arena would seriously . iul Arab-defeat." with this except as a' question'"'of- "refu- weaken the four-power talks on the Middle gees." "•'•-.- • v' ••:' East in New York. Israeli broadcasts and newspaper com- French efforts, therefore, were aimed at Holding the talks was a de Gaulle idea ment purred with what the Tel Aviv socialist paper, Davar, called "satisfaction." Other drawing new and secure frontiers in the for- and a French initiative. General de Gaulle mer Palestine area, now controlled entirely had morally and materially backed the Arab Israeli commentaries accused General de by Israel. side since the June, 1967, war in which Gaulle of "continuous anti-Israel and anti- The French view has been that these he considered Israel to be the aggressor. Semitic positions." should include both Israel as a Jewish na- But in the councils of the Big Four he Advocate of talks tional entity and an Arab Palestinian had wanted France to play a medial role entity as in old projects drawn up in 1936 and between what appeared to be complete So- France formally proposed the present 1945 in the time of the British mandate in viet support to the Arabs and unqualified four-power talks on the Middle East last'No- Palestine. United States back-ing; for Israel.- vember after President de Gaulle had advo- The result would be not far from the A weak or hesitant-French successor gov- cated such meetings for many years. It present demands of the Palestinian Arabs: ernment might abandon this, strong inter- .sought four-power talks as a way' to demon- a multisectarian, bicultural new state in the mediate role, diplomats here feel. strate to both Arabs and Israelis that there Middle East. In Cairo, t|nited Arab Republic Foreign could be other Middle East solutions than Here, Arabs of both Moslem and Christian Minister Mahmoud Riyad said his country those put forward by either Washington or faiths could live in peace and security with and the Arabs 'in general "regret infinitely Moscow. Jews. Some Gaullist publicists have pointed and profoundly" General de Gaulle's with- Since the start of this year, de 'Gaulle to the parallel between this and Lebanon's drawal. spokesmen say, French policy was aimed multisectarian system '-fand'-'hayeMiaHecfci-ji Lebanon, amidst it's own political crisis mainly at avoiding further United States- the ' 'Lebanonization".-. of. .Palestine.. •: : '• '(r$i? over whether or'not to support Arab Pales- tinian guerrillas, was especially concerned. French embargo on arms French governments and especially Gen- eral de Gaulle have kept a friendly and pro- tective eye on this former French depen- dency, where French culture is ascendant among educated people. After ^Israel's Dec. 28 attack on Beirut Airport, General de Gaulle imposed a' total embargo on French arms shipments to Israel. And offered what amounted to.'firrA.,| se1cur,ity,f.,gji

''GLORIA' EMERSOi *~.?" pale, thin. face 'gleajnihg-'with j./with a blon1 d ponytail cut a'sense of importance, she-, 'in; giggling. /". Sjedal bo Th«J?ew YorJtTlmes gave a 20-minute speech to -;, 'PARIS, .April 28-^He was : "The Maid". is Joan of Arc, v -: two listeners ' on the . new -. who was burned at the stake •jqo'- -. bl3;.-"ihe .-squandered, Communism^ that she.-said in the nearby Place duVieux- French money von Arab and; France needed..' •" : :-" • Marche' in 1431. Linking Gen- African countries, he "made;, In the I'Ecritoire Cafe,, near /eral'de Gaulle to. the nation- a good leg of lamb for Sun- :. the Sorboniie,, ypungv couples !'-.al herbin'e and patron saint day'cost too'much, he.: lost - squeezed :•;; together < on..'- the is a local joke; because he ' the "initiative, he took- too brown- ,plastic:v ..banquettes • .is credited'.with a mystical much initiative, . he ,chased sharing1 Hhe'newspaper Le sense of: mission like hers. away the rich American tour- Monde.- For some of 'them, "De;Gaulle shouldn't have ists, , 'he was.: deaf to :.the ; General de Gaulle is-already tampered, with .his own Con- '•• grumbles of' students -and of a very ancient figure. stitution," a long-haired art workers; and his dreams for "He "was anti-social; his - student said. "One simply has France had begun'to bore the , awareness was stunted," Mi- become tired of his caprices." •French:. . . .-.•.• - •' • '••-.- ' - .- : : chele Lucas, age 20, said, A Remote Figure Already :'• Parisians 'talked endlessly flipping-her waisWong blond today ,'of the defeat of hair. x ... These and similar remarks today . .seemed to indicate Charles de Gaulle, and why : The middle-aged who work / they :had brought it about, and-,live in'the Latin Quarter / .that young people.in Rouen •their /reasons ranged':from did not grumble about/ any already regarded the former President as a remote figure. :the leg of .lamb to the' con- betrayal of their ideals. They , : viction, of the'working;class, spoke of• centimes, of francs* /. Nor could much .regret for that the general did not care of rising, costs and taxes. ~ the end of the'de Gaulle era about them. People talked - "More- than 10,'years in ' be- detected among half a cautiously, quietly .a'nd.oalm-: power/arid France is in bad ' dozen middle-aged residents lyV Some 'showed ^fear, others ' shape,": the '.•well-led barman who were interviewed in.this •relief. '•'••. .' citadel of centrism, the mid- at/the 'Cafe La Fourchette dle-qlass opposition to the ' Artists and Students , said.: ?.':We/ have nothing -to; thank him for." :. ' ' • ;: -'I.. .f6f.mer'President.','.' But:only in 'the Latin Quar- '-• But, "like many: others in. These older voters dis- ter—the ' .district.. of ,Paris ; ;cussed, .the • possible . candi- .where ..artists;, "npneonlorrn-, •the neighborhood, '-ii&' could.;- idates to/succeed the general. ists,- Sorbbnne students and '-. i'thi'nk of no orie- man/ nor of 'Ro uen has a potential candi- . one. political party, that he- ; : /strollers . flri ' 'the .Boulevard prefeWed<: It doies. not trouble • ,date - in:-, its' Mayor,. Jean /St-Michel' have/..always',,ere- ', : : : .. Leeanuet. Once '.labeled the : ; him either... / -..; •"•-• :, : / .•• . ,'ated'. 'a: Different' .France. ; of ' /"French 'Kennedy" :/for- his .|their;,Qw'h—was. there, elation . youthful good ippks - and and. open 'triumph. ..., i'.1/ Little, Regret in Rouen mPderately. progressive views, ..- -/At'the Sqrbpnrie, students By PAUL HOFMANN ;'..Mr. .Xecanuet unsuccessfully spoke.of last May, when they Special to The New York Times. ran against General de.Gaulle '" built, barricades in the.streets ROUEN,1 France,. April 28. in the 1965 presidential elec- .and. fought the .:police. .The .,—Etienne Gervais,' a. 21 -year- tion. '."./ ; : ' : • . ;.students : took credit for ig- old engineering > student, : .The '49-year-old Mayor, niting a-countrywide wave of stabbed a /finger 'at a patina-. who is also a senator, vigor- discontent, strikes and chaos . . green . Napoleon '/on .'a.. rear- ously campaigned for a "non" /that: had doomed the enemy ing horse in the middle of •vote in the referendum yes- de Gaulle. 'Place du;i General, de Gaulle,/ terday. ' ,':"Everything begins now," ."the? hub of this port city on • Mr. Leeanuet has not com- a/ .brown-hair.ed girl said, ..the Seine River. • •'./.• mitted himself publicly, but handing . put: mimeographed '-'Fortunately,.. like Napole- his entourage clearly expects handbills". "To fight the bour- on, de Gaulle how belongs him to play a major role in geoisie, become a Commu- to history,"'he said. • efforts to set up a middle-of- nist,", the handbill said. Her "Or, like The Maid," a girl*-the-road post-Gaullist regime. It Colbmbey", a ft^c>on Is Still on Guard

By LLOYD GARRISON this sleepy: farm town of 380 Mr. Sicurani- was left standing Special to The Hew York Times people today 'of • any change outside the --gate in the rain COLOMBEY - LES - DEUX - in the -general's official status. visibly humiliated. He left for EGLISES,-France, April 28—The• Down the hill hisv helicopter P;.a_ris 'in the same Citroen six bells of the churclr clock tolled stood ready on •' the; ramp be-minutes later;-' noon today,.the hour President hind the huts that -house -the .Mrs-, de- Gaulle's brother-, de Gaulle's resignation took ef- gendarmerie detachment..- ' Jacques. -Vendroux; • who re- General deGaulle .-remained ~.signed today from presidency fect, and a" platoon of blue- :;J e behind, the .wall throughout oof the -National Assembly's-For- jacketed gendarmes marched the day and-received only two eign Affairs Commission, paid : away from the de Gaulle estate, visitors • pfV-note;- His J aide-de- a visit shortly before- noon;, a. country retreat that has .-been camp: atrived' • in a /black Cit- followed by the family the family home for'more than roen," abpiit 10':'3'0 ''A.M. witthh gardener, who carried a pail 30 years. •lean .• Sicurani, secretary to Of leeks. "It's for soup for sup- Television cameramen' filmed jaeques Chaban-Delmas, presi- per," he said. : : the guards' exit as a-;synib6l,dent of the National Assembly. At the parish house, the Rev. of General de .Gaulle's/'transla-•' ''I've got a letter 'or the Eugene Dronot, a plump, bald- tion from. President'to private general from Mr. Chaban-Del- ing man -with rimless glasses citizen.'. • ; ; • / -.. "- .. ' mas," said Mr. -Sicuranras the and a broad, infectious smile, -. But, seconds later -'another : car -.'paused -for -.the:, gates to was-asked .how he thought the platoon., marched up the hill swirig open:-But he never had general would . -now occupy ik/itsvplace'along the a- chance: to 'deliver it" him- himself. "Oh^he ..replied^ with {. rjbtjncfi'rig the 18-room self, After^a- wqr.d^.;with--the self-assur^f|\ smilei/\ 7 "he'll | se;-//pne/^man every 100 aide-de-ra^^gjvte;jpi;||i^a write the fd^th, tp'me- of His! . memoirs. Heifeprbbaijly-hard atl There was no other hint in .swept it right now!";'At ''•- •'••••• '-''I YORK TIMES, Tuesday, 29 April 19^9

, Fra^^iim;/^ uick Devaluing Doubted

By CLYDE H. FARNSWORTH Special to The New York Time$ PARIS, April 28—Political that $200 million poured into and monetary uncertainties the country At the end of the toucHed off by the resignation day, the West German central of President de Gaulle brought bank announced technical | renewed currency agitation to- measures,- including a 100 perj day and a strong demand for cent reserve requirement onj ;gpkl:: Most observers doubted :oreign funds., to -try to dis- that; there' wpuld be an imme- courage the flow.' ;.... diate devaluation. •'•'•• '••;•••'. .. ..During.:the day> 'the 'mark, 'The..pricer of 'gold rose. to. a worth 25- American cents, rose record, :the ' equivalent ,of to :Jts highest permissible, rate $49.09,, or 40 per cent more against the. dollar, while the than" the. official' price . of. $35 franc,::worth 20 cents, retreated an ounce.' Gold coins were- sell- to within a shade of its- floor. ing in some cases at more than Under: the international mon- twite'th'e yalue of .their gold etary •'. system v established content. "Gold -closed at $49.06 quarter century ago at a con- an' ounce, up-.94 cents. ''- ference, in Brettoa Woods, N:H., • In :;a. pattern- reminiscent.'pi currencies, fluctuate .' within the.monetary crisis last Novem- .fixed' rates.-; arid; yQpvernrnent' ber, i the FrencH franc and the central'.banks' buy "or sell dol- ;British pound 'weakened while lars to maintain <;these,/rat-es. if 4 funds •'•available to Britain-; eavily involved in export] 'the-.:. WesB :!- German;.;mark a country's ecoriorny?J|H:showji though perhaps with even more rade, which would be hurt by strengthened. w as ioo ^ es m te §.tEi*tgis attached, evaluation, were sold. j Frankfurt bankers;-. ,ti .3 4!marjcetc-, by " .,t>n Karl Blessing, president A higher value for a cur- cessive of the West ^-German, central ency leads to higher export shotvn to rlei;n.pt;. competitive '' y' ihat-France rices or reduced exportprofit- enough by .rec^ir^ng' trading: wpujd- not have rtd devalue pro- bility. A devaluation means deficits, the authorities may de- d-:' Ofae fpuld. .prevent the Pwer export prices or in- cide to change the relationship wage reased profitability. of the currency to the doffi So heavy was the flow of The prevailing .view was unds into West Germany today the i franc ,^as--not m,irnm6di: may prove to; be diffi- :hat the central bank reduced ate danger!' of devaluation. French- ts buying rate for. dollars on Alain Pohef, the Interim French has our occasions. The rate is now President, is unlikely to:! taltS the lasi 3.9825 marks to the dollar. The any drastic monetary .action;,' floor for the dollar is 3.97 financial experts feel, 'and the, marks to the dollar. French reserves and borrow- The Bank of France reduced ing facilities are big enough to, Sgepirig abroad.. ^ .,. . , . . the rate at which it sells dol- withstand any neW speculative ^ ptic; \activity in thfy Pans ars in support of the franc to • assault. " .••'. '-•' ••''• ••• • '•••'"'B and thev.deman. d the lowest permissible level of The big question fpr sec'urLtie's on the -B.ourse to 4.9740. The franc 'closed at will happen when an day- issjiriwisd thfe*-.lack ^pf con- 4 9725 ernment takes over. arid •nasj/ut Me'ri' '.•'••'•••.= '''..''; 'The'pound fell sharply in face tWe problem of tradingfdef' early trading but recovered icits, new i wage increases-.'Jaitc some of its losses to close at ing . ''costs steady losses of gold .reserves' : 6 2.3889, a drop of 12 points. There is the.;-;-belief• m j -scalj^ dowh^th ' France, may then be" wag'e^prbppsalsi; Thesje^re-run nirig-,this;. year'three'times ove devalue, while West; : CAUTIOUS REACTION may be forced to revalue(its what4he' de.'Ga«ile Goyernmea ;i 1 VOICED IN currency upward.. : ;- S-;.7"V -said ;ifc w;as -prepared; to offer This was the issue last-jNi) .Dr^Blessing, who.'spoke f

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eelar|,tion said.,,'enlargement "Under i. .,., sai'd that alter its,( r&ture 'but tried, to ho!4^is:|n--tu;i ,^ . Sould - .readily wel- fulfillment.';1'. Besides aid. "Perhaps;;now 'they, come back as,ja>jniljtary mem- ct more in. concert v?ith the ber of-NATO, fjfenerakde, Gaulle .-•' •pr'aliic'e and Italy, the,, %embefs est of Europe and pursue a Instead, everyone will try to re 'Belgium,- the Netherlands, ended WencK'Siritary Cooper- Luxembourg and West Ger- policy tiiat corresppnds rnorfe. to maintain';a dignified affirmative Seif -possibiljties, for instance ation nf iS6Sr|ut^rance cpn- LONBON, .-April -28—Britain many. • . '„'• , ' jy. cutting, ^owii... their military tinned as a .pofflic'al .member. attitudEfAwithout reference to France. . 'again . boycotted ' 'to-.. 1 and' Italy formally pledged to- FranG.e.'s?interha} situation; the :ay another rputine m^etini of expenditures.'""}""'". ' '••' Jfha arj^geroente'''' njade by day to work together for BritisS.^pmmitment to .'memfa'er- the Westerri^'Europearj: Union, In Government circles 'the be- the North Atlantic.Council, the: greater European unity. ship hi-'tne: 'European Econbjriic which includes BritainEand (the, ief is strong-that.'WestfGfer-alJi^ie'srvi '• group, Community . a.nd to -ijnity' .-in --•JOwjienifiratiee wittidSsV from ' 'Their. declaratipn came. durr pot the bill for ing;1 a state visit here by the Western'.'-Europe generally; will ,ause of Britain's mo^' to use France's military Cooperati_qn, .left " be reaffirmed at every Oppor- he union for political-; dlscus- roubles_, _either • bv^ -extending forf »widg open'-" f6r her even- Italian President, .Giuseppe tunity. .... nons. arge financial credits or by rfe- tual return, one representative Saragat. But/the coincidence of No one believes that Britain valuing the deutschmark, or said. timing made ft.'an-implicit ex- can now bounce into thejinar- New Era Foreseen iniRome both, to'bolster the .franc. .- ' I^t wilmml bp ^^^^...:g,--h^e added,^^,, pression "of .'Britain's attitude-in ket, or really think of 'winning Special to The New YwiK 3toM1 At the regular Monday after- -for- ^ny FrefictT ;Go.Y«hment to acceptance: from any French ROME, April 28—President Sw_?^i,°™«^f-ii!r^;^: return1 easily tthmilitary' coop; the. wake of. President de Government for years'.: But -.at srstant' spokesman" for the: Gov- jration' without •• 'Seating *crow;' Gaulle's, resignation today. ., le Gaulle's...defeat was see; n ernment, Conrad Ahlers, ex- 1 least *the'automatic implacable lere as, the beginning oJ a:--new At ' and In Boan.r.the general's, deci- "No'ijS gone and there may be era for;.France "and European pressed Bonn's'"thanks tp.de Supreme •< Headjiuartei|'s,; Allied sion was met .with a mixture a -cha'rice Xor reason and 'diplo. Jaulle for all.he has done for unity, .but..there- were f soApreS- German-French friendship' . in Bowers Europe^, ' are = rnpre - in- of relief, arid apprehension r dictions.of stormy dayS ahead. terested. in • an; ,earjy, , ex-tension General de Gaulle's likely past years." ' '.•'••'• of niilita'ry ^cobperijip'ri: ^yhether theiou'tlook for Europe. Sources. The general feeling was aptly Foreign Minister Willy Brandt 1 in .the. North Atlantic Treaty by -the ialist or hot the 'Ffehcfi' Government ssued a statement shortly after takes . Organization said • that advocate of a British role on VKnister of Labor, Senator noon saying: , . Siacomo Brodolini, said: ."Our hope is that our.French . The. . two ..Frenc.. h 'I most likely result would be ex- the Continent.. But,.the', belief about 30,00(P''rn&'' V riow sta- pansion of French military -co- is that he -would be' unable-.to 'I don't see much VSaullism leighbors will find a good ,splu- 1 ; without-.de,. Gaulle." ff -. iion.to their internal problems tioned in' West :Gerrhan ? y would operation with alliancei forces ignore-, the views of his allies The 'Government's jattitude be. "welcomed" tp"-jpin. NATO m so, 'Olympian, a manner' as \t the same time we hope that maneuver's^ -i '-military, spurce in Europe and the Mediterra- thefgeheral.. ' -. was-- reflected unofficially in Jie corning .period will make nean. a staternettt: by Deputy F.laminio t possible . to achieve new s'aid'id.. •!-,*!'?• :- . '.'^TaJlSs Start At Noon The alliaric&'s :ab.ility to count • British officials took the ut- Piccoli, secretary of the;SCh:ris't- )rogress in. ..European policy ; most care to avoid any appear- Presjiiient'Saragat arrived at an Democratic party, vjtho said 3erman-French cooperation re- on 'the use: of 'the' ti^p divisions 10 ; Street for talks the genetal's retiremeji^ ^woulc u.ains, therefore, an indispensa- in a .crisis' Wquld''.^'^'^weight ance of exultation at the fall wi{h --grime;-Minister Wilson at result in ."incalculable political 3le-element. , to any; response fo .-& -jjvreat of „* ««, „„-,, ,<,!,„ ho* fcs>vaDw«*jrf,''* of the man hour at developments." .-!V . "General de Gaulle wrote hi; Soviet aggre'ssiof r t in central which /President Gaulle's 'He said that the;'defeat name in the book of history Europe. '' ~' .';"..-..',:'.'- resignation -became effective. showed again the "inigossibil- more than once and those who Similarly, allied;'cp'jnmanders '-''"^w^l'-an^ address i'to.. the ty • .-pf -• confronting political sometimes had different •views hope for . more'.- extensive and luses of Parliament, Mr problems in the eiwnentary than he will maintain..their re-1 open French,-cc;Qp.e.ration in ar- Saragat - said'ithat, Italy .hoped ferms. of power or .personal spectforhimas a sTatesman'of- rangementsifgr: the:..air and sea fpr "full participation by your prestige." '•%. ., . historitp.. . . i rank.'I T.' V . defenseJ_j;___l , .'_i-'il-'of .; i -itlir-if'j. . country i.in the \establisbnierrt ~ "One-thing appears'scer-tain,' , Recent .CrejflflreenienJ^ of the of the new'Europe." V- ''•'•''• he1 said." "The. defeat. $d resig: Joviet fleet; .tHere""h^j5r. under- The Italian Foreign Minister nation of de Gaullfe open a new ' Military Role Foreseen lined the . ^mpjaptancfi- 'of what Pietro . Nehni, and Britain'* : r pegQd,- in all probabilit ; y very By DREW MIDDLETON was tefr^fei^'i'cflfriprehensive Foreign . Secretary,,. Michae xqubled -for France ind-.Eu naval. andf,,ajrivje1ff.e)ff;'.',':by all Stewart, signed.. • whaV Mr -"'• •• •' .-• Special to The^'ew Ynr 'ouc alii^ftc£',.ra^ber.5,, border- Stewart said was '.lan. impor- on ." tant joint declaration of pol- Relief Expressed i| Bonn and icy."' .-' ' -. •."• ••• -. '•>. • •'. ation.with North Atlantic alii- Turkey ' It Said the .two-, countries - .-By DAVIP;BINpjp:R; ance. •forces is CeAtral Europe; ' '•'• "believe, ^he, .eornmftn interests " ' ' : and the Mfediterran'eaji was seen of the Continent, its security BQNNs April .2.8— yest; iGer by NATO- sources today as..' .th. e many, .whose :destiny;|s- cjps|l: most lifcely strategic ''result of and its prosperity, deman lfd iin ion.irm "" TheTTheyT pledge'n\etftrr^dA rf-rtPt '• '"worTT7nrkt tied to'that of jFrancS reactei President 'de G.ajille's :resipna- fo*•GXi"l 4-t,J«this"' ainJvmn ' •togethe* Ann-l-U nt^rf . ^..i-tlt >4-X,. • 4-Tirl. • -Frill f\f -. PresidenUvi&r-f^aTi^t detionA . ;o|her European : .gbyerlh'ments . Covert cooperation among 1 share therr -itjeals.'' v • ground and sea iForces'.of the declaration -dealt .witl alliance and France : has de- the 'French-argument, -thati'.eri official.-~,remi-, .._ —,, veloped in. the. last 18 months. largetne'n.t •_ of' trje Common was u})''afi<| there was npthini Uritil 'now, fear1 or"."the,., general's fflarket~rnuch"lieybnd its pres- more to;expect from him. A displeasure •has-inhibited.-F.rehch ent membership of six woule1 great man can be a great bur commanders Kha'ngei.; its«<-'character. Thi den, also for his neighbors." MEW YORK TIMES, Tuesday, 29 April 1969

Europe"] pie -wit] morel Gaull ...,,. Bring- • brought stabilityaja'a;^ Whoever the new President• to the counti-y. There \ Foreign Pphcy is, he will, stress the' need -for objectiv^ truth in its boast^bin a "modem"? - society, '-for tech-many, citizens thought. differ- nological progress, perhaps ently. Many, rightly or.wrongly, even for the need to learp .frohi felt left out. the -example of American tech- :-' '.The extent to which the 're- nology. Georges Pompidou, gime-had failed to satisfy the 28 —r.cSharle.sras 'one'editorialist todayj bread-and-butter demands of its : PARIS ; iValery Giscard \ d'Estaing, Mr. ^;:G'ai}ile,. tw;ho ,wrpt£f abp'ut it, transformed) French:-! Polier, Jean Lepariuet—practi- citizens became .dramatically ,£r,aiic"es!}keX£;ipyer of .iiis-bride poIicylMH'a'd he-riot been,, clear in May last year. After 10 : cally all nonleftist contenders e fl e 'a'iids,-'a>ri3pnk of his imadonna, Elyspe-Palace, the. Frenchfifsskijf —havt_ e madI_e statement_._4; «_*s« t'io- *T.:thiskJ 8f « °f 9 - the regime sufl. 'h'aS'Je'ftj'tr^ scene and-, remains tion fypuld'have been diff|']>enfa effect. demy found it was despised and silent .fo/h'is .little village. - and: 'the. -world , therefore^'lb'l General de Gaulle,was a man defied by 10 million strikers.and. '•Frericferjien today seemed su'r- some extent, .would have been: of the great dramatic .moments, lundreds of thousands of -stu- ?p;rised.;and?ia.''little awed by the different too. - of history,; of. the. struggle- be- ' i• ~*M{+«/ii«¥.'.magnitude? nf;;. the—-. 'collective.- . But even though the outgoing tween great powers and of po- ', General De Ga'ulle called the Seed* tbey;'$Pmmitted -yesterda• y' President's foreign policy was a litical-military strategy based nation to order. Arid the nation, PneVm'an show,, it was, endorsed in extremis, obeyed—4ess out of ;'*'t(5-; !i'\" -'-m; dismissing him. in its-substance and basic aims, on permanent .geographical fac- • •'•-•--••,-• "--vv-Many: '.teday. Jf-1 tors.' ' • • ., . allegiance to him than out of1' . Wewj' . .fleeted Mithe: "in- though often not in its'stylf , In domestic :affairs' hi§. atten- fear of a takeover by the Left. Arfsrtis" '.gratitude;»»of. 'the land', method, by a.majority-p The crack in the general's armor A Frenchmen. ' . '..-.'. tion ttlb We'nt .t^;',the .great Hp- was never repaired, but he W*™-.' -nation" -%d''.the iThe Left, which .for year: sues. His contributions were *A ,,,!.'?!-, •''tragedy". ;pf, •-the the new Coffstitution of 1958 pressed on. : V had been Ithe- only serious oppb K 4-...-^,.—„y.;:.pl.fclie.ro,,. ' 'But; V,y,pung and the electtph-of the Presi- He has always seen himself: IlifSy^tferCbllagi'-^Fprker-' sa^fge! .sitibn'in'the country, emphati- dent .in- uniyer^al^ijff rage. ';' as the lonely, giant whose fate: J-'dis'^almfafaSy feeling :of|gui] cally approved- the ' general' it is- to assure the well-being! f/i'lhajice^etenes of th'e;.:fw,6r_.. )piicy ,pri NATO, East-West '«n The Path to His Downfall of • his country even -if he isl IwA'pfiltlR^yith-. irreplae'eaole atipris, the United States and Until' recently he-had shown unappreciated by the masses. | ^teii^H^aMA^K';•-,-' -,'-'•" .'.'•"-.-tj little interest in the technical Less than a year ago, just- ^rv^ieEfe.^i:,e^.-'certauT to be-fun^ . Jstyl...... e Was. ' Criticized. ^ and-economic domestic issues, after the regime barely survived ^ante)itaSthanges,'.ip ..French-\\ fiyen-.those who quarreled such as- roads; the- tax system, ,.the student and workerjupKeav- '{6^ei|n.wi||||iy;:i-;aSa :-.result ipf yji;...him on foreign affairs distributionl Pf th1 e national! al, he spoke about this with ; 5 w wealth, • education; , and 'agricul- unusual poignancy in a tele- g6^e^--'^e^Gaulle'^fei'-Sa^tes-v-'djiwnfBlfel-^ai^jia"s .downfall , -cpjticize'.d not the substance of tural and industrial structures vision interview. ^Mee.Ssori-is.-lf^BlyftoJ^^iSpJi^y. but the abruptness| His concept, often lepeated, He listed his .foreign policy ^JOTMelf.^fQr:\'^igfe|.i3j:^.-.''!4Ki^.n^_to^«^w-Jli.i W was- "1'intendance suit'l—' moves from decokmialization S;fcfi^fi ®;p'filiig«-i)f-ri5asp4?ad:-|.ti^ji'fftfeiit he,-'gaye "',tci:-fp.rrriei' roughly translatable as 'ithe tQjj.Uje beginning of th'e libera- " " "" baggage :trai.rt always follows." ''''-irt-,pf.v,ttie.iF-rench-Canadians. e'stjXchievem'e.nti-it'sS-'e^-'lhTs'T vjp^ffij^tyljFfiaice's'..partisan- i Fpri . '-policy,.'at any. rate,.- ''sNot uiinatiirally, his downfal.' jd 410 role in -his down--! Ibegan to. gra'p; f ail.; *xqgpt that his stand, on •Israe]--ito'st ,'him a .considerable. »W¥J,',U- VW •»¥&. &. -if.'. •b;ut certainly 'not 'decisive num- pension," complaints an ber ,pf votes. times furor. That is'.fate] So realignment -ot .currencies,: and • Ironically, the' • conservatives much so tha,t one of my friends -ic'IST'-iiij-.u-^iiii^^Kmat-.- me;, jprupreii,i ofu^it -,'- BDI-IUS j««.iH. of the'>Tniddte- and the right who |—and I.do. have some friends- •entry; fiiB the Common Market had been disturbedt about the 1 will.he. discussed seriously at deterioration of relations Qfr speaking about 'this tide;told last . '.',.'..' 'i. - tween -the United °*-*°°I1T"t me of ,a primitive painting that) showed a. crowd'being.led to- 1 : ward hell by devils while a| It.'is *clear that"some of 'the tion Md'PresideritNixon's..bDW.||: poor angel'iwas pointing in Die . itiosj 'jmpprtant. events 'in Ea-in his direction. These.'&anref • rope- during the last 10 .years groups, however, turni opposite direction. would- :not have' happened, or him in the referendum "The people, hj the crowd would • have happened differ- The most obvious _. had their fists r'ajsettnot against ently;-if the .general-had not policy area where things will the devils but against She angel. been President' of France. change is the Middle East.'The Anil my friend" said: "There " "the Atlantic Alliaricer.fo'r one, consensus, in.Paris today is that should be another painting next to-this one showing; the-crowd would -'be ' 'different;' ; France the Israelis have reason to re- 1 . ...«-..woulUd V*:llstill"' l^bne «a 'w'aw^krtw^nrriember ~i f t\,n ,.„,~!~„: an«—d^ thal-Tla>t thf>len ArabArflhSs havQSVe on the point of falling into the integrated 'allied military orga: lost, their most effective friend ^hasm, breaking ;away from the nization: Jfis sale to say^tha't1 in the.West. . . - . devils and running,.tpward the nd;"other French-leader would -Even Premier Georges Pompi- angel.' That's symbolic and fig-] haVe' thought, of ''askihg for the dou, who of all the possible urative art, but p,erha] withdrawal'of ,America n forces'/contenders is the one who or .yroul'd'Have had'the power would., be under the greatest to bringHt about BSfl.he wish'ed.|pressure to maintain^a^semb-- to•db1'so'.'' ••-,ij • lanc• e ''.of. continuit^ 4—y of Gaullist " No • .o'ther'1-Frenchman wouldpolicies, . is .expected to retreat h'aye te'esn'-'welcomed to Mos- from1 the general's —partisan •-cow- in "such .friumph as de position.,, -Gaulle'Was--i-;'' n 'I966': :. ''talk of' Similarly, there are strong "d«ente" b'etween East'' and ...... S™6- esult might not hayelwould not , as it is, .or the -strj of devaluatidri Western longer: Washington,''Gaulle'.'....*;-.,,—.-,,,„-, ^.,,. . •.iwuaj7- i. --, tvi'••"." .:and-.especiyny''jr"he'had won ''No^Fr^ridtfleader »,ojildjhaye.the--.r,efer.endijim. ,with 'only 'a •f/>™»,,intoa:;his\ vetoipE British narrow marsui,,the franc-.would 1 n il.'l-(v-._-_^l.'" V " ~ . .I"'-.- .-• - ••_ _^7l^ --._J™L n4.«nv.n m.n^_

'bnr:'Srehch_.arnis. deliveries ^'o ion-- will one day become in- Tsrae], :aria".Fraiice .almost cer- evitable .and thatj.the thing thai U'taiply .-would.,:npt:;havi.voted-counts most is to carry it "•" , fpr.ji.United.Natiohs condemna- under favorable Conditions. ; tipn.bfjjsrael.:as an "aggressor.",' In most-other respects, spe .-.;O'nly.General.:de.Gaul]e could cialists look not fon.a conscioui haveVrifJaen'^o.jimperipu'sly be-reversal of existing Gaullis 1 tweejj.'',JVIonfrea].' :and Quebec.polipies but.for increased flexi- t he bility and much greater willing- 'by ness to compromise. •. s QiiebgC' libre!" A return of France into inte- . Hash'.in-'Criticizing U.'S. grated allied command, for in- '• x ,, ^, • , j- ,, „ ,, stance, is held unthinkable, bul Only General ds Gaulle could maliy kinds of practical ai have .denounced the Unitedrang'ements for military coo, States .-so .savagely about Viet- din|tion may wto approval. ^o other, .leader would have Caution on United Europe spo;ken--.so.. lyrically a66ut tfie. ,. British...-e'ntry into, the Com "perennial;.'. -universa.1 and in- mon Market is likely to be dis- alterable".qualitie" '" s of' gol—'dJ an--dJ . cussed _seriously __, , bu__...t the.,tech„ - no one could have put.as much:' nicanicall probleproblem ooff bringinbringingg iftt w'e'ightiiehirid th'e French drive: abouabout wilwill remairemain long'beyonlong' beyond foria'ba^ic-c^iSge-ji*-.--!,.,•*;„ .**„•«,<;«,,inn (he-ynterthpiintervi th'fhee de ..Gaulle,-Gaulle,;;:-e>a-:'e'ra-. Relations 'national ' financial" system and with 'West Germany, which termination - of the .role of the- during the last year have been dollar and the pound as reserve strained, are apt to become currencies! . . • . , more relaxed,. . ; - Alt this amounts to one thing: If a centrist .should win -the his personal' -power,'his fierce, presidency—for instance; 'the nationalism-, his'aggressiveness, —there--is likely to be. more his imagination and -'.panache,' interim President, Alain Poher NEW YORK TIMES, Tuesday, 29 April 1969

pxdhFFaTsesde Gaulle ofJfanoeJ ^l^y JETER GROSE haye'g^ealiy valued the frank Speaafto The New York Time and comprehensive exchanges WASHINGTON, April 28— of views it has been my priv- President Nixon bestowed of- ilege ; to have with you, both; as ficial and personal praise on a. private citizen and as \ftce Charles ;de Gaulle today, then President and President of the expressed -his .-belief, that the 'United States. Nor shall I for- "effective '"dialogue" established get the courtesy of your wel- between .the ttvo President^ come and the wisdom of your could; :b.e ^maintained: .with the counsel during my recent visit next: French Government." ' to Paris. Our talks proved 4he '"•'In a' personal letter, written occasion for a new departure within a few. hours of General in friendly cooperation between .de Gaulle's resignation early our two nations. •*" today;; Mr. 'Nixon told";thei''for- "We in the United Stages mer President that he, was >cer- will not forget what you have 'tkinly- 'Welcome to come to the. done for France, both at hqJne United' -States" '.-. as; ,_a; private and abroad, and for the world, citizen, and be received just as boih in war and in pe'ace. ;' ""Mrs. Nixo'n joins me in Mr. .. Sixon was,.Ireceived in 1 Paris when he was'out of. public sending you and) Madame ;de Gaulle our warm personal re-i Office; v -..'.'";., .'•';.• ; •.-::-.' C-^./.O:'' . ',. ards and best wishes for the Visit Was Sphediiled I fUture.1" As. President, General de; , The text of the personal -let- 1 ter was not made .public, 'butj Gaulle had been scheduled to. White; House Press Secretary pay a state, visit next Decem- : Ronald L. Ziegler said it con- ber .or'January. ,':"'"'- ', '..'•"•'. j tained the invitation for a pri- The - French. .:Ambassador-jll vate visit to the United States. : Mr. Ziegler said: Charles Lucet,- kept a previ-' "The President feels we have ously scheduled appointment at. re-established an effective the State, Department this dialogue with the French Gpv- morning, pursuing the series of: ernment, and we are looking forward to maintaining this discussions on. the Middle East communication in what :the that Have been, conducted here President has referred to as this parallel to the four-power meet- 'new era'' of consultation.1 ing at'the United Nations. "President Nixon, -I am sure, : will see the new • President, of Diplomatic, sources indicated France at a time ,'and that the interim GoVernmeht in place when it is convenient^' Paris would .not suspend these ' • Reports from Paris point to talks. Some United States offi- former Premier Georges Ppm- cials believed that the next ipidou as the most likely $uc- jcessor to General de Gajille French Government -mfght relax •after the special presidential General: de Gaulle's embargo on election that is to take place arms shipments to, Israel. no sooner than 20 days or later Mr. Nixon's:'. of ficial .'message than 35 days from today. ".'"•',.; to General de Gaulle said:' ''• ' On this basis officials here S .?'. . . . ,. :-:• * t-• . '. *.,>.J.^i: •*/:'• expect a gradual softening of the anti-Israel sanctions that General de Gaulle imposed after the war .in June, ,1967, and the- Israeli raid on the ^Beirut airport D,ec. 28. NEW YORK TIMES, Tuesday, 29 April 1969

Publi c Officials Are'Si

Special to The New Yoi-k-Time; special tome New York Times •• the abuse -heaped on President \; JERUSALEM,' April 28— Is- de'. Gaulle by Israelis. raelis expressed delight today 'The basis'for this, bitterness was found in President de with thje news that President iaulle's switch from his role de 'Gaulle- had resigned. as one .of Israel's closest allies •••'.. -The v afternoon • newspaper and her major supplier of arms, •MaariV; said: -"The 'World* in- to. that of an implacable foe .elu'ding - Israel, _has been saved and: a supporter of tlie Arabs! .'.from.- the ^obstinacy of a stub- Regarded as Betrayal . -ibpjrn, - --vindictive, and vengeful Israelis- "regarded "this as a .:"-"-. : '• • " •• '• cynical betrayal of a friend by '.^.'Newspapers ' reported.! spoh- an aging leader who was seek- ,. tan'eous,, .celebrations. :in some ing to curry' Moscow's favor Tel ;Ayiv nightclubs : and ; la te- in the" struggle. against the . hour '..restaurants ' , . when the United States.. •'•'. . iiewV reached -here after.'- mid- .The turning.point came with -. hight..!,c ;' ..'• '"V .;. •'•[,'' • ';'•/" the 1967 war,/ when Israel dis- regarded General de Gaulle's ;. Israeli; : 'officials-" were tight ; - '.. lipped,' tioweverJ .One;., press. :pf- warning not.:'.td fire the first v shot. He imposed an arms em- ' ficial Said: •;."! have been in- : . structed : nq£ ^tb react, so :I am bargo as pumshment. not- reacting." He.:. Was smiling, Fifty -Mirage ; jets',' paid for hbwsver. '•.• . '!; ,-:' ••'..•: .;•' ' -.-'• • by Israel, : remain undelivered ' . An o.ver'se'as . telephone ope.r- in France nearly two years atbf;. in Tel .Aviv, .'. informed :6f after the war. Israeli leadiers ;the .'"resignation/ by ''; a Londo;n may now nourish the hope •operator putting a .call1 through that the embargo will be lifted, Jtq' -Jerusalem, said: .'"That's the although few here believe that best bit : of news I've : heard al there will .be ;any immediate -da;"----::. , •'.- , . change.../ • ;.-. ;' . The.' • predbmihant view was '.'CAIRO, .April" 28 (Reuters)— 'ithat. !any change in French The. '•. ;official Governmeht leadershiri1 would, have'.' to be an spokesman, Dr. Mohammed H. el-Zayyat,: today. described Gen- inlproyement .'a's far"' as Israel : was cbhcerried except, perhaps eral. ;de ..Gaulle as "a man who . if .''Fiance ; 'elected a Commurjisi lived by his "principles." . in Gene.rai . de , Gaulle's." . .place Dri; el-Zayyat said that the "'":'. The gejneral had become pi^b United Arab Republic always lic enerri.y;; -No.. •' T in '.Israel^' exrheld' the;- General .in .high es-. :'jcee'di.ng,ev.en the Arab leaders iteerh and added that "he should ;; j jasfan 'prJ|ec,t of sborn "since .the be,a shining :examp:le for states- ;li|Airatfclsraeli: .war, of June, 1^67 men everywhere."'. ; : : ' ':j'-:":^Tpt "eyercthe Soviet " leader .Observers said the resigha- i ; ishipi .'. regarded .by . the Israelistibh of trie French.; President ^[as;: haying be'eri responsible, for was bound to be viewed here j; jisetting '. in ''motion the events with mixed feelings and a cer- i,) that ..led. to the war, suffered tain degree of apprehension. as Policy, in the ^ordsi of General de Gaulle ; : ^ f - ' • ' •' - , • - : Special to The New.X6rk Tte»« the. union, of all of., Europe of unity whic^, for some to talk to; th'e Ea^t, neces- ,Erench,.,'Arvd.yet''!-..... in 1914 . .PARIS, April 28&&S France „ through- -the practicing' be- ;- 20 1 centuries, ' has been sarily addresses"" itself to- we..were,at;war..'.Y^'h' ^^" entered the post*de Gaulle era ' tween its west, its center and 'haunting the souls: of our Moscow. (June, 1966.) helm ,.li, arid.the:Americans ;. today, lief citizens were ,de- ;;its.'east. o-f de"tente, ; entente continent. ,'. It was a great were pot. there"..They..arrived 1 : Israel in 1917; .and. they did; well to '... bating' the. central' '.question" and, cooperation. (Address, cause which was t ;•„ at the ; attacking, in six/days r ,4o so,f6r.themselyes;;and for : engrossing all Europe: -How December; 19670 •:..•' •• . . root of our quarrels.\'(July i a : : of fighting; Israel captured' T 1^ -^ " " •long, Will General de 'Gaulle's We do not want a supraria- , f ' policies and philosophy of tional Europe. Nations exist.,, • •the, JbjeJve, K*^,* *A^'$ZiS. '& Atomic Weapons • teach:.-.Now it is organizing | • ; government; .endufe.stiere, in There isan-Italyj £ Germany.,.; : . by : ; They have existed for thpii- V "•''• No country without. an' in the territories ii has taken1; ,in 1941,.because . |he.;J.apanese i' sonie'. of. the. general's .own sand; years, for two thousand , ! a.torh bpmfa could properly 'the 'occupation .'that-' cannot; ; sank ..part, 'of ^.their-.'vtleet; at L, remarks,, is the essence of . years. Those/are not entitle^ consider" itself " independent. occur 'Without :"opprressi6ii, j Pearl Harbor, that the United ' ' that can disappear like that. (From Alexander 'Werth's : repression',;: expulsions,' .and a| states ..entered -.the,; war. Far France's -Role There' i^ no possibility th^t- "be Gaulle/') ; resistance is forming"against " from-me to belittle the irn- si they could be welded, to- A country th,ait has an it which, in its turn, it is |/mense,"servipe they,• rendered In the occidental world of gether. To create >a suprana- atomic armament incapable describing as terrorism . , . |,themselves, the .world^.and us which we5 are a part with- o tional Europe- for 'u§.- would of having at its mercy, a, .a settlement, 1;unless the I',.; .1 am npt,Saying,they are out being confined' to it, we be to; disappear. For? Europe, country that doesn't. (News United Nations . themselves ^ anti-French becauselhey were must talre a place of our own, a confederation, y^s, but not conference, July, 19'64.) ' tear • up their own charter, 'I* not .with, us always,;^;-,:. I .am ; conduct ah action which is a: fusion. (1965, quoted by France's inodern armament '•' myst be based on the evacii-. j not anti-American, -for pres- our action. (In a radio ad- not only constitutes an in- atipn of .the territories taken lently not alwayspbeing "with dress; June; 1958.) Andr6 Passeroh-in "De Gaulle by force, the end" of all r .speaks:.") •.-,,:. ,'. .. - :-. .;. ' comparable guarantee for her ' the Americans.T,,. ^(je" France -has'"' chosen once security .but .beyprid that in-,- belligerency' and the rhutual interview, December, . Slid for all' to be 'France and " ..''." ' Produce' 'into,' a ' dangerous' recognition<'' of -each •state involved by all the 'others;! T invite' 'everybody to adjust 'In briefV. the; nature, .sstrucs , . wpfId, t &1 new and. powerful ; •to this. (Address; Septem- ture and' situation peculiar I am • A policy is" ah action/ that voff joining the ; British .Isles' "'/vyhich dpfes:;fnpt,';c'h4ng.e( .its is an ensemble of decisions with the economic community • Russia !eiF in'effect in all ariti-American.'-But, ever since 1 nature, which ''can 'pi jhdif- ro one takes, of things one does, 'formed; by the • six; continen- respects/the principal power I have 'been associated with ' fereritly past 'as'" ingot," .bar, or -risks one takes on, and tal states -arouses wishes in the, part of the. world national acts, tha; t is since " 'or as coins, which.''has no na- all of it with the support of. everywhere, which are ideal- where she is situated. On the 1940 .; . Thave always found •tion'ality> w'hich^'is petenhial- the people. (News confer- ly' quite justified, but the other -hand,: she appears to myself;'' being-; attacked '.as ' ly and universally'taken for H- ence in July, 1964.) •:. question is whether this could France as an interlocutor anti-sbmething. . ; .'In fact, the inalterable'; credit "value H who has been America's ally par excellence.1 Anq"":"fpr the Europe "be. done today wjthout tear- . with whom understanding : irig apart, without breaking .and collaboration are emi- from" beginning to end if not • rest, whatever "in-" the. middle I . intended to assure de Gaulle's France? . . . In • of the immerlse#Jalg;tHat we up what exists. (News cpnfer- nently natural. This is a MD France's predominance in: enee> 1967'.). political and emotional re- the case that misfortune have'' all. gohe through' one Western Europe, to cooperate vality a_s ancient as our two should occur and the freedom may have .imagined,:-or said, with East and West and, if Germany countries, which is because of the world he ,in the or written,, .pj done, the fact need be, contract the neces- In' truth, .Germany and of our history and geogra- balance, who would be .auto- is .that' .to''this;;;day:n9. cur- sary alliances on one side • France by seeking to impose phy, and because no funda- m'atically the best natural rency .-has. . y'^lile.." except or the other without ever on each other their domi'ria-.. '. mental contestation ever op- allies if not France and the through direct or indirect, accepting any kind of de- tion in -order thereafter to ~ posed them. . •. . In brief, .United States, as they have real or supposed relation to pendency. (From General de extend it to their neighbors, since the point is to have the been so often in such .an gold. (Quoted by John L. Gaulle's memoirs.) were pursuing, each for his '"'international situation evolve event? Besides, I do not sayf...^Hess iri,. "The' .Case, for de One of France's goajs" is own account, the old dream in the right direction, Paris, that the Americans are HEW YORK TIMES, Tuesday, 29 April 1969

i»fe /s 52.4% Council, a Wjtw^SWTlw appeal on constitutional q ittion Ballots tions, acknowledged fecehjl id by-Titne'-.s'&terit'i INDE Special to'The New York Tl.ines from the Premier^ of ^General' worker troubles of last May PARIS, April 28—Follow- de -Gaulle's note of. resignatiorji? and the Gaullist electibn tri- The council declared .the 'frfr! : ing are the results of the na- umph' that followed. The Soviet tional referendum yesterday, terim presidency ift 'effect, and •ELECTION '• invasion of Czechoslovakia was complete except for the vote the election interval begun.: from Polynesia: . Mr. Poher snowed -no haste: '•':'. The Communists appealed to YES 10,892,196 47.6% to assume his new ypreroga-, Ji the Socialists today for a corn- NO .... 11,989,559 52.4% tives.. He arrived at Elys'^e at •i rrion election program, but a The total voted counted, 3:05 P.M., received a small ^section of the.? Socialist party 22,881,728, represented 80.17 cheer from a crowd of perhaps " arid the Radical Socialists, who per cent of registered voters. |200 onlookers and took tiife, ™iare moderates, -looked With in^ Polynesia, with 62,000 salute of a platoon of the Presi-f 'terest'toward the possibility of registered voters, opposed dential guards, in blue and red. a centrist -bloc. the regime for the first time, While General de Gaulle's ' "The election date most often by a margin of 53 per cent, chief aides were gone, a-proto- mentioned is June 1; If no can- but the exact figures were col officer, bodyguards and dicfete wins a majority, as ; not available.' other staff members ' remained se_e,ms likely, the two leaders to serve his successor. A group 'will mee t in :a runof;; f two weeks from the Seriate President's later. franc, which declined today as ipffice in the Luxembourg Pal- Interim Presidency Guy Mollet, the Socialist sec- the price of gold soared, a;s Iac" bee arrived later. retary general, 'said that if the the only possibly critical prob After a 40-minute conference TV, Calls on Frff rtj&prf pitted Mr. Pompidou lem before the' GovernmenGovernment|witi nth Mr. Couve de MurvilJ4| • Against: Mr. Poher, the Social- during the interregnum. The Mr. itoher made his one ce|e'| ist^'Would back Mr.:Poher. If|regime's ability to act de- jmbnial gesture, a trijD to to the s^coTid Candidate was a cisivfely is limited by an am- 'Arc ,de Triomph^ to lay :C6jfcmimist, he said, they would biguity in > thi? distribution of of 'red 'roses at tack the Communist. powers. Tomb of the Unknown 5oldiei£ By JOHN L. HESlS;'!^" • The.ieffective contest -shaped •Unlike' a regularly elected The wreath identified the dori^r] Special to The "Ktw York ife^ -* up as one between'two con- President,, the interirn chief of as the President of the .Senale; PARIS, April 28 — servative candidates, one Gaui- state may not dissolve, the Na- was so introduced-on tele- Poher, President of the list, 'one riot. ; tional Assembly or' dismiss vision this' evening. He 'openefi ministers, although he may as- With ' the familiar "Frangaises, Senate and a conserval ,, Cabinet Member Quits 1 ponent of Gaullism, who^is ., Significantly, RenS Capitant, sume full powers in an emer- Frangais," and closed with tliej .a leading left-wing Gaullist re- gency. The Cabinet remains in "Vive la r^pubKque! Vive ' la advocate of European signed today as Justice- Minis- office, but it may not call a France!" But the contrast with became Interim Presidepfi. • ter. He. was the only Cabinet referendum or. demand a vote his predecessor was striking.'. France at noon today. --•••!,•.| member who refused to serve of confidence. When he wears his steel- Without oath or , in Hhe .caretaker government A dispute Between the In- rimmed glasses, , Mr. PoKer '"under ife JPcjjiejand Premier terim President and the Cab^ rather resembles Herbert Hosy-, he took over from Gen. er, who, like liim,: began ffiis; de Gaulle, who honored^ h| rMasrice Couve de Muryille. inet would be difficult to re- y Capitant, a wartime com- solve. They seemed to be tacit- career as a mining ehgineer.J promise to step down unfesi -Jn. arms of .General, de ly agreed to avoid any such He doffed the glasses tof-deliverI majority of voters approve^-, , _. Ie,':.was an open critic of confrontation. The Wednesday his two-minute talk in a'grave,' proposals for regional and'Si f.Mr) Pompidou, whom he ac- Cabinet' meeting,.normally.pre- ,low-keyed tone." .'...'•.•'•*': [, ate reform. More than 'Sj£ '• ciised qf hayijig sabotaged, the sided-:'Qver !• b y General de POHER') cent voted no yesterday. ' , Gaujlist program of increased iGaijlle, was canceled. Following, ' ^participation, in govern- The passing Of the regune In a brief broadcast translation, is the text of —'".ch was to have-been came with a minimum of drama •Mr. Poher's afldress: Mr. Poher, who Was vi „ ..by reforms giving|and ceremo'ny. It was a bril- .- . Frenchwomen,. Frenchmen. unknown to. his couni defined regions morelian" t spring .day, arid French- ; The -President-,of the Re- month ago, expressed : autonomy. .. "° • , . men generally weft: about their .ipublic,'General.de'Gaulle, has , : Mr. Pompidou, -a former business as if nothing hsid deCide'd to ceaiSe acting," as'.. over the 78-year-old gi . Rothschild Bank iafficiarw'eU re- pened. •• i .•';'.•>:•. .. ? decision, paid tribute to President. . ./...- . • .' garded in conservative circles, Packing Up the Papers On the. ,6'venirig after-thatr "outstanding services of • canceled .a public appearance decision, 'which; I tegrfeti'-.I'- past" and called for national7 this everiing, but friends in-the <3ej}eral de Gaulle.^ept his proviflces began forming ,c6m- solitude.:ifi.,Colombey-l6is-t)et(x- ;want abo'^e ^11 ,tb ,express to-1 unity in respect for the lawT-v . him th^- resjiefitiof all^tilqsea : mittees to back him. ; : ". •- Eglises,' AttEIlys^e Palace "here, "We must aboye.^M-,-and ajjt; aides 'began I&%r4gfct,,.t6 pslck who, Sj. tjte;djff«:utSfes:pf the 3 : Valery Gisc'ard d'Estairig, .presint. wflljiiejfer forget his . together-,' •save-.the^unity of-^tb^ '. leader of the Independent Re- his .j)ers6inaJ;v.1;ieloi!gMgS' "arid ouMariding . (services 6ff the nation," he saicl. . *~$j-S : publicans; made, it • clear thatpaper? mto IrucJisJo^Wl' -past,' '•;••:•'-•--::•: .su. -o , Fair Election fledged^ 5|^ his: persona_l break with, the to his^ountry hpme. -. ^'--V ist regime in the referen- Byt midnjorningi • jffie -p interim.': He promised a fair* eli applied also to Mr. Porri- appeared deserted. In (the Salli ini Addressing' of a new President "in a [.• He called for the nom> [ties "•ji'etes, sqene of i many o of ybi^my dear ; ion of .a figure not involved General de Gaulle's great weeks," ,but- did - Jiot set!; ' " ' ten, ' he took over from Gen. p"u»derJ-:-Mr. Poher and Premier terim President and the Cabr rattier .resembles Herbert Holy? e'r, who,-like, him^'iegfan Si|| de Gaulle, who hono: ouve de.Muryille. iriet wpuld be difficult to re- t,. a wartime com-solve, ijhey. seemed to be tacit- cateer as a muiirig en'gine^li-2 promise to step down .. arms of .General, de ly agreed to. avoid .any sjich jHe doffed the glasses tp'-ldelivef majority of voters appro' xGaiille, was an open critic of confrontation. The Wednesday his two-minute:talk m "a'grave,- proposals for regional JS/fej Bqmpidou, whom he ac- Cabinet' meeting,; normally..pre- low-keyed tone.'". ;" ; :; ' reform. More than cw^ed pf haying sabotaged, the sided -.over '. by General de' '''•'• POHER'S lADBRESS cent voted no yesterday^ Gaujjist program of increased Gaulle,'was canceled. 'itffesi "participation. in govern- The- passing' pf the regime Following, 'in ij^bf/icial. In a,brief broadcast Wgpt — which was to have been came with a minimum of drama translation, is the text of ! cr.ojvjie3 ''•• by reforms •Mr. Pqher's a'Sdress: Mr. Poher, who was ; giving|and ceremo'ny<: It was a bril- • FrenchwQmen,; Frenchmen. unknown to his couni newly defined regions more "liant spring .day, and French- autonomy...... " ••• men generally went about theirj The •President,of the Re? imonth ago, expressed" Mr. Pompidou, :a .former : spublic, Generalrfle.'Gaulle, has.,' over the 78-year-old business as if nothing had hapf decided to cease acting,''as, Rothschild Bank officiaTw'eH re- jpened. •- ..;-."' Priesident. ;/, ,, : . • ' :: decision, paid tribute to his" garded in conservative circles, L ; "outstanding services of tfig- •• canceled .a public appearance Packing Up the Papers On. the ^venirig after -that this eve'ning, but friends -Mr-the snerai de Gaulle Jcept his decisipn,. •'whjchr I regret, .1" past" and called for nationaj' -.want .above'-all-,to lexpress to unity in respect for the la'WrV provinces began forming com- 'solitude, in. Colombey-Ies-Deux- ' mittees to back him. . Eglises; "At!.Elys£e Palace here, him the- resjie~qt. of all those.-., "We must abpye, aW:and ail, Valery Giscard d'Estairig, aides began last: night 46 pack who, juv the: difficulties of the together, -saye:,the' unity of tb;& leader of thfe Independent Re- his personal.,,. belongings' "and pres^ntj. wiU, never forget his outstanding services of, the nation," he saiti. . . " "*"" publicans, made, it clear that i papers into tTUcT^for^Wpme'rif 1 t his personal treak with the to hiS:Country homb.-. ,"•-';'''^ ''"" -past,' '.,. . :. ••'•: J ;' -f- '. Fair Election Pledged p Required by fthe- -Go.nstitu-' | Gaullist regime in the referen- By^ midmorning, jthe -.palace •> tipn -tp1 - assunie'' 'the interim-( fie promised a .fair' e ; ; Idum. applied also to Mr. Pom- appeared deserted. In /the Sail* cy,' I .a m''addressing of a new President "in a j.gujou. He called ,for the nom- des- iFetes, scene of. many til liipation of .a figure not involved General de Gaulle's great re- q all of you,,my.dear' weeks," .but- did' noV set 1 ,|ello\?'-''^ciUniErymen, whethefi date; the law requires Ifft, recent political . wars: iThiThe{ceptions cepttons,, and news conferences ,: ypu ifeside jri. Metropolitan i definition could apply; to Mr. Bernard Tricot, -his ejhief aide, ; vote be no les? tnan^O an3,:iib i^o^er or to former Premier told -ae staff ,of somei.200 that ' *—ice, dyejfteSis or fn' fqr- more than 35 days from theses- lAjjitpine Pinay, who' has been the general regretted not being ignation. At a news confe:rjen£& iinjaitioned but said he would able to bid them farewlll. Irfifl; only "to avoid a catas- "disclosed ,'ih yesterday's"Vcfe he also declined to say ^i||jip • "All our -life," he, said, "it ing, you feel as deeply-as ~t '" will be an honor to have served 1 he would b'e a^ca^idati^B^ '$."> With,, .procedure for . nomina- do, I ani sure, that' we must . 'Former Premier liaA-1 --^T.i- — 1_ -= — i- vxv» -•- General de Gaulle.'* ' above • 'all, -and' jfli-stogetiieif; ^ relatively simpl save the unity of Pompidou .;.surgeJi,tp t _ _ natures-of-citizens tive office in We will lengteti ..cai^ scrupulous st Hpi >nitents or :be six or more law, which the first : ones operation, of the elected as- ejnerge&as. more ;:semblies ahd 6f all French- of. non-Gaullist prien. : : aild. hs*fcAfter a loyal comparison l" Sien and prbgrams, you b.ulk of the nearly 12>:mi ,.ift a few weeks, fully in- votes -that defeated' p"resj choose your new nt- de Gaulle, was givenitq fch' ^jJPrfhchwomen;.re»i-^ , Frenchmen of electing his successor. " 'e..-future of the father- fragile united front of ^ in the hands of all munists, Radical Socialists an3' Socialists, born in the presK :.;.'Long live the republic! jEprig'live France!. BOSTON GLOBE, Wednesday, 30 April 1969 Israel, NATO Po fides Helped Defeat De

(Second of a Series)' many things long before anyone else, had failed to By THOMAS F. RYAN see this. There were Boundless Love For One SUII Writer clearly visible signs — Charles de Gaulle is reputed to be a cold man. not only in the elections He is not one to show affection in public at least. Charles deGaulle came of 1965 but also in the But his youngest child, Anne, was retarded. She back to power in France student riots and the was a mongoloid, weak in body as well as mind. in 1958 as a messiah. He strikes of workers and To her, de Gaulle showed boundless affection. was forced to resign in farmers in May of 1968. w 1969 because the day of He spent hours holding her on his lap, trying to the messiah was over. There were clearly audi- comfort her. She died in 1948. The general and ble stirrings of discontent Madame de Gaulle established a home for retarded over his anti-Israel policy, children in her memory. It is strange that he his anti-NATO policy, his in- who had foreseen so tervention in the Quebec controversy and even his Common Market policy. Not Charles deGaulle was class. Graduating with the that any one of these isues born in a family that includ- highest honors was the rut- was enough to topple him ed soldiers, scholars, civil ure Marshl Alphonse Juin but the accumulated resent- servants and nobles of the who would play an impor- ment against them -could Church. He had a grand- tant part in de Gaulle's well have been a factor. mother who wrotes romantic future. . •• novels and biographies. To push his nuclear weap- Among the latter owas "the When, after graduation ons program he had cut the Life of Daniel O'Connell", deGaulle went back to his Army budget to the bone the Irish statesmen. One of old outfit in the army, his and there was bitterness the deGaulle ancestors commanding officer was Col. over this among the gener- fought at Agincourt and an- Henri Phippe Petain. De- als. Yet it was to the geher-' other was a secretary to Gaulle came to idolize this als he had to turn in May, Marie Antoninette. man and Petain was of ser- 1968, when, the Sorbonne DE GAULLE THE MESSIAH vice later in advancing the riots and the strikes brought As a child Charles de- creer of deGaulle. Years fear of civil war. . . . speaking in Senegal, West Africa, during a Gaulle was tall, skinny, later when the 'break be tour .of French colonies. j awkward and arrogant, a tween them came it was in The tragedy of his rejec- descroption that applies, in the darkest hour of French tion by the people in so part at least, to the great history. Petain's -government humiliating a fashion is em- tral authority at home was former honor and glory. The man of today, He was one of later found deGaulle guilty phasized by the fact' that practically non-existant. The thought that h was uncerem- five children — three broth- of treason and he was con- during many of the years of war in Algeria was getting oniously repudiated at a ers and a sister. He was a demned to death in bsentia. his "second reign" he had costlier and uglier by the time when he was — in brilliant pupil and had a accomplished so much. hour. The economic situation many respects — at the phenomena Imemor y.Even Twoye ars after deGaulle When he came back in 1958 in France was that of a na- height of his career must be now at 78 his memory is returned, to the armyj war France was in chaos. tion threatened with bank- a cause of anguish for him something to marvel at. Be- t.,j,t..fl;a!.jjh| Frist rup Cy -in his current isolation at The army in Algeria was ' Colombey-les-Deux Egliaes, fore those famous appear- '" in a state of rebelliB_n,Csnar-r DeGaulle got the army ances on te levision he writes, •V rr '^"•(mder control. He gave the The messianic complex of out his speeches and com- . country "in seven days a Charles d«Gaulle developed mits them to memory, In- government stronger than it at an early age. He was born variably he delivers them had been in seven years." He Nov. 22, 1890, in the indus- without a slip-up. ended the war in Algeria trial -city of- Lille in the and gave that colony its in- north of ranee. His father, His full name, by the way, dependence. Thirteen Henri deGaulle, was a veter- is Charles Andre Marie Jo- French possessions in Africa an of the Franco-Pruesian seph deGaulle. His nick- became sovreign nations. He War of 1870 and had been name, given to him by his put the franc on a sound wounded in the conflict du- classmates while'he was in footing and in five years ringthe siege of Paris. The his late teens, was "The Big turned the country from defeat of France by Prussia Asparagus". Even then he bankruptcy into boom. He left scars '-on the soul as well was six feet,' four inches established cordial relations •as on the body of Henri de- tqall. with Germany and improved Gaulle and his feelings were relations between France indelibly impressed on his He developed a taste for and Russia as well as with' son Charles. reading early. He read»much the other nations of Eastern and even wrote (a little) po- Europe. Ghe general would later etry, He liked philosophy .recall the visits he, his fa- and became a devotee of He put through .reforms ther and his brother would Henri Bergson. It has been that made the presidency a 'make to.the scene of the bat- said that in later life as a powerful executive office tle where the elder deGaulle military theorist and a prac- with the President elected had been ounded'. memorial ticing politicia n his ideas by direct popular vote. And hd been erected there in the and actions showed the in- he himself became president form of a brokn sword car- fluence of Bergson's philoso- of France. . ring the inscription: phy. Having achieved these . "The sword of France, ,'things'it Is no wonder If broken while in their valiant But abov • Charles' de Gaulle was con- .hands, shall be forged anew tory, p of 'jFra. vinced that he was ap- ;;by ,the descendants." pro-aching the realization of 5 "• • - J «.=,._! «._-,«.-^_,J-J,0 jje hy. • Even as a boy Charles de- derived tKe^rgn'cept' of na- 3je — the Gaulle .determined that' he, tionalism that was such an rice to its °ne 'of. the descredants . of' important factor in his life. '• ... those- valiant -men, would hone1 day forge anew1. the.-; Charles de Gaulle pre- sword,of France.. • • • pared for the .famous mili- tary school of. St. Cyr by studying at the Ecole Sainte-Genevieve, a school He Gave JFK catering only to the most brilliant students. He passed the'.exams to St. Cyr at 19 A Good Tip but first — according to De Gaulle is reported to French law — had to servea have 'advised President John year in the army as an ordi- F. Kennedy in their Paris nary draftee. He spent two meeting: "Listen to nobody years at St. Cyr, graduating but yourself, my triend". among the top 10 in the WASHINGTON POST, Wednesday, 30 April 1969

Israelis See Better T •, ^ . • , With France Eventually By Alfred Friendly WashingtoiiVpost Staff Writer ."JERUSALEM, April 29— Georges Pompidou, officials Thoughtful Israeli officials point out, he is, not likely to believe that the principal im- affront his old boss needlessly Diediate gain, their country by a sudden rescinding, of. the can count on from the! ppliti- embargo.; •pal demise of General de S16,w Change Expected Gaulle is the presumed ad- Even if the new President is yerse psychological effect out a non-Gaullist, any suqh policy tKeir Arab, enemies. .'•'•, change would come gradually, .~! Arab leaders, It is pointed if at all, they believe, and out here, saw de Gaulle— acoir- would be dependent on in- ately-^-as. responsible for end- terim developments in the ing the once cl6se,.politjco-iniil- Middle East . '•• :: :; itary relationship' •. (between France, and Israel, 'a: change •Analysts ,here. insist >that the climaxed by de Gaulle's -4m- turn of events inimical to Is- bargo on the shipment;' of -50, rael; stemmed entirely from .de Mirage fighter planes iniipedi- •GjuUe,. partly from pique, a'tely before the/ Acabrlsr-aeli when1 Israel refused to heed -iyar in June,' 1967;r: ''"''"•-•.. ••> •'•: ? '" .While.no reflective; Israelis his' enjolnder riot. to; fire first expect that embargo to ibe in 'the. six-day.war; but mostly; : : ended • suddenly,' or \everi f or a ; and .as early as 1965; from de> /long time/tey b0UeTO?Jthat"it Gaulle's, decision, to postuEe. — and .France's igferierai official France as' a, great power. This arii.mus toward Israel— re- meant that he;, felt-he had to siiJlited entirely from i de stand apart from the United Gaulle's personal views. . States and: free himself from fPhey think, therefore, that cpmmitme,nts that would the; situation should now impede 'h'js • playing a middle change-, 'markedly, particularly role : 'between the United /France's; defense of ;,the Arab States arid the Soviet Union. position ;bn teiims -for settling- One of those anhibiting com- the :Mddle;East^qnflipti' They; mitmentsi as. he;. ;savr:it— or as .ib;eMeve/the. Arabs;'' will- 'read. the Israelis' thirik he saw ft — the:, results 'on 'i. Sunday's, etec- was the : extraordhiary French tidiri'sj.'thecsame way.' .••; :;'.•;•?•' role, from 1955 to about 1965,' of military ally v'and principal y j£: - . Ar.ab. dis- arms 'supplier . to the Jewish 1 ' starte: ••'-.; •• '-'•-'- '•'.' . • '•; appoiiient ^cbul'd h'ayej ijn- '• .'' ' f . ': • K portant':cbiiseOTeraces in.- Change Foreseen ; Y flyjiigjArab 'pSliies' ': or No prospective successor to de Gaulle -is;;likely to entertain Gaulle's resignation, either his-'pique'/toward Israel : analysts, •here declare,' the or his pretensions; as holder of Arabspno -longer lhaye the as- the, ^balance' between 'the- two surance that-France will con- superpbwers,;Israelis argue. tinue' to withhold from Israel1 *, Therefore,' :they continue, ;the all-important : fighter Fran.ce eau, be expected to re- : planes or the 'certainty of sumeC" the • ; attitude • -the Arabs French backing on Arab set- beg of th-e^Uriited States: 'a bit .tiament terms,, ... more "everivhandeilness." .V Ori:'-th_eir part, the Israelis •• '' K- .France do,es,';!its' official are obviously delighted. to see oppo'sition to riefeotiating' a : a man they disliked intensely preferential .tfeatyV 'with Israel removed -from the .leadership in the Coirimon- Market should .--of France. But they point but give way as a matter of ,i\'.| -that.it :will be this fall at least course. Second, Israel hopes i|..;b.efpre any major changes in France's posture in the four- I ipbitcy tdwai'd Israel can be ex- power Mideast discussions is not likely to .be so ;QJ successor is the Russian-Arab HEW YORK TIMES, Wednesday, JO April 1969 leGaulteErai aspect of the first days of fipaulle era is that nothing dramatic has occurred. The chaos the French leader" always warned Would follow his fall gives/no sign ql materializing. General de Gaulle came to power after a coup and ruled like a monarch, but he left office like a democrat. tPolitlcal:conflicts and 'turbulence, even serious i crises, inay come; in the: months or years ahead. But i fo!r fee time being France's good fortune is that the ' general fell on an issue that engaged neither passion norfcommitment Oh eij&er side; The country was not aroused by the comparatively: minor constitutional • reforms involved m'the referendum. The nation con--... templated the prospect that the 78-year-old President would resign if defeated—and gave a Gallic shrug. ;The question now is whether ex-Premier Georges Pompidou, as the Gaullist candidate, can assemble enough votes to win the presidency. The Gaullists as a political party have always been a minority in the ^country, obtaining between 32 and 38 per cent of the popular vote. General de Gaulle himself obtained orily 44, per cent of the vote in Metropolitan France in the first round of the December 1965 Presidential election. "•''"','•„ : // '' • : .If1 Mr. Pompidou Is elected he should be able to name his own Premier and govern without serious challenge until the present Assembly expires in 1973. But tf an anti-Gaullist wins the,Presidency he will undoubtedly dissolve Parliament and call new elec- tions, m that case, an opposition victory would mean significant changes in French foreign policy. But the likelihood is that similar changes would be instituted gradually—and perhaps even rapidly—by a Pompidou regime. With de Gaulle repudiated, a Pompidou gov- ernment would have an interest hi quickly establishing a new image of its own. .:'.'•'•• •' "...'. ." .*-.(', : " ••.* ;•..•• ,:;;*i : '. '•»'. : ' " -••'.'''•.•'••" ;Mr. Pompidou-yesterday mdicated a. shift itoward . a; policy rnorej favorable to West European unity, especially ^British entry into the Common Market. Friendlier relations with the United States and closer cooperation with NATO, without formal entry into the integrated military command, would also be likely. These would be popular imoves in the country, as vfould a return to traditional French policy hi the Middle East, the unpopular embargo on arms ship- ments to Israel would probably go quickly. The pro- Arab policy in Big Four talks on the Mideast would undoubtedly go with it ;Freneh participation in dis- armament negotiations could be expected at an early

; Eyen the future of the franc, despite the temptation : of a new government todevalue quickly, is ^likely to be iettled In agreement with the other major mone- tary powers. Here lies what will probably be the chief characteristic of French foreign policy, in the pbst-de Gaulle era. With its proud, prickly, prestige- :oriented President gone, France is likely to turn away from unilateral action and disregard of others toward ;j ^closer cooperation with friends and allies in the-West. NEW YORK TIMES, Wednesday, 50 April 1969 ^'Charles de Gaulle: America's Regret and Relief •---By JAMES RESTON tumultuous battles—until some chance of encouraging than any of France could be: reconciled* America has taken the resig- individual or movement brought other nation on earth. And that the variety of Europe, nation of Charles de Gaulle it back to sanity and unity. America's criticism of de with all its national differences with a mixture of regret and re- Accordingly, the great crises Gaulle is not that he failed could produce a league of lief. We made love to him and of French history are usually France but that he failed the minds and a powerful political he turned us down. He taught identified with the names of Western world. We regarded coalition, independent of both us that we were not omnipotent unusual personalities, families him not as a national but as a . Russia and America. and then made the mistake of or assemblies. In French his- world figure, the last of the But de Gaulle denied it Na- thinking he was. Yet our regret tory, Charles de Gaulle's place Western political men who had poleon thought on the scale of at his going, at least in per- is secure. He was the unifying the ability to express the idea the world, but he was ahead of sonal if not in political terms, force in the latest crisis of of the unity and tragedy of the his time and failed. The tragedy is greater than our relief. French disunity during and human family, but he let us of de Gaulle is that the time The reasons for this are fair- after the last World War, and down. was right for him to thdnk on ly obvious and sentimental. He thus takes his place with the the scale of the world and the was the opposite of what we other heroic figures and institu- The Tug of the Past coming age, but he thought only have now. He was a man who tions of his country: the Cape- He talked of the grandeur of of France and the past. knew what he wanted and not tians, Joan of Arc, Louis XI, France when the world, hungry Still, he has his consolations. a committee giving us a "con- Henri IV, Richelieu, the Conven- for vision, wanted to hear about He is undoubtedly the best sensus." He was the last of the tion, and even Napoleon. the unity of Europe, and he ap- writer hi world politics today. great political figures of the Maybe this is giving him too pealed, in the end, not to com- And he still retains the quality two World Wars in the Western much, even in terms of French passion .but to selfishness and to of "mystery" which he has world who could write and history, but in world history everybody's nationalistic preju- always regarded as a source of speak. He never smiled, never his place is quite different, for dices rather than to their ideals. power. pretended that the people or the he.chose the past and not the That great Frenchman, Jean "There can be no power press had any sense, and in a .future, and debased the ideal Monnet, fighting for the unifi- without mystery," he wrote in world of grinning, pretending we 'had about France in the cation of Europe, used to argue The Edge of the Sword. "There and back-slapping political me- Western world. for de Gaulle. "Don't judge too must always be a 'something' quickly/' Monnfet used to say. which others cannot altogether chanics, this austere and even The French Ideal fathom, which puzzles them, contemptuous attitude, ex- "Our special quality," said "It is the living de Gaulle who speaks, but it is the dead de stirs them, and rivets their pressed in verse-like prose, was Paul Valery, the French poet, attention. . . . Nothing more interesting, even when he was analyzing the character and Gaulle who acts. In the end, he will clothe himself hi the robes enhances authority than silence. talking nonsense. destiny of the French nation, It is the crowning virtue of the No doubt he was a great man "is to believe and feel that we of history." strong, the refuge of the weak, in the history of his own "coun- are universal." It is probably right for the modesty of the proud, the try. The individuality and vari- He thought the problem of French history. He restored the pride of the humble, the pru- ety of France, which are polite the world was the crisis of the pride of has country, which was dence of the wise, and the sense words for selfishness, are both mind, that nationalism was a a great achievement, but the of fools. . . ." its glory and its problem. It has curse, and 'that we could not pride of nationalism has been Anybody who can write like always gone through great pe- have a league of nations until the tragedy of Europe, and this that is not likely to remain riods of personal creativity we had a league of minds, is the point he missed. silent at Colombey. His ca- leading to alarming periods of which France, with her intelli- Paul Vale'ry-itfhought 1!he va- pacity to govern has run out, political instability,, followed by gence and variety, had a better riety of France and the unity but his time to write remains. Foreign Affairs: The Last Giant By C. L. SULZBERGER judgment of the national tem- in 1940 and now is very evi- produce folly if it alone serves TOKYO—The French are per doomed him b a needless dent, very striking, That was as guide." highly individualistic and Tin- referendum. a success for France and I And now, perhaps fefecause h« governable and the extraordin- Once I asked the general think I have participated in this heeded instinct wr impulse in- ary thing is that, although they what he considered the great- success, but no one can predict cautiously, de Gaulle retire* project great leaders about once est success and failure in his where It will all lead." into the Sophoclean evening. a century, those.leaders rule ef- eventful life. "How do you de- The Sophoclean Evening He will live at Ms country es- fectively but bequeath'chaos. fine success or failure?" he tate but he will write no more Louis XIV constructed a wondered. "Only history Itself De Gaulle always cautioned memoirs. He will converse with great, unified France but can define these terms. In that one couldn't measure a his grandchildren, see a few strained the nation and, their reality .life and action are made man's worth until his career friends, watch television and marrow eroded, the French en- up of a series of successes and had ended. "You must remem- listen to music. He says: tered a century of disastrous checks. Life is a combat and ber," he observed, "people grow "I am very fond of music and war and revolution. Napoleon therefore each one of its phases in stature. One speaks of giants I often listen to it both on rec- pulled his people from the ashes includes both successes and when it is all over. Sophocles ords and on the radio. I do not yet hi turn left disaster. failures. said that one must wait until pretend to have a very accurate What de Gaulle's legacy will De Gaulle on Success the evening to see how splendid taste. .Certainly I like Beethoven be is impossible to say and one the day was; that one cannot more than Mozart—although I cannot forecast whether the "And you cannot really say judge life until death." can say I am surely fond of able but jealous lieutenants cre- which event was a success and Nevertheless, regarding his Schumann and Schubert, Also ated by his Fifth Republic will which event was a failure. Suc- own life, he told me: "I was there are moments—I say ino- manage to coalesce around one cess contains within it the much influenced by Bergson, ments-^when I like Wagner. I man and resurrect the old ma- genms of failure and the reverse particularly because he made crave music but I am not cre- jority. For, despite their talents, is also true. Certainly France me understand the philosophy atively competent." suffered a terrible failure as a of action. Intellect alone can- there is no giant among them. Not Like Churchill Years ago the general assured nation in 1940. It was cata- not act. The intelligent man me: "The age of giants is over." strophic, but what occurred in does not automatically become Shortly after he returned He was the last. 1940 merely reflected what had the man of action. Instinct is from Churchill's funeral I asked really happened before inside also important, yet even instinct de Gaulle an admittedly lugu- Mistaken Resolution France. Nevertheless, that was plus impulse are insufficient. brious and impertinent ques- I saw de Gaulle just before a failure without precedent" "Bergson showed me that tion: Had he made similar per- ;: Nixon's ;F,ebruar;y;;Visit to Paris [although scarcely his own].. action comes from the combi- sonal plans for a great historical sohitely de- "And now France has been nation, the combined applica- spectacle? through in- notably re-established both in tion of intellect and instinct, "No," the general answered, - based on labor- its own eyes and in the eyes working together. All' my life I "I have thought about-itta/gre'at ^eapital '"pa'rticipation" and ad- of the world, ^ow far that wiU, haye been aware of this essen- deal but my funeral . !/ : 1 ministrative decentralization. continue' in to ' "the future, of ;tiany important explanation/. opposite of C^ But • the manner

; ; ": Special to The Mew York Tim "The- success' 'of ' Gaullism 'tio'nal mari, -a maii 6t. expei'i-r a balance sheet arid that- it " PARIS, ' April 29—Pfc.f: " become known How things. v stemmed frpni the fact." that ence K Teq'u'ir'ed wlio-h'as-'nbt int"de Gaulle's: resignation ^'General de Gaulle'could say lie'eri engaged''in 'ffie1 political happened: concerning Atgerftfi ° Sunday night brought .sor- " 'he'was incarnating'Both tra- 'fights' between;"majoHty and concerning Europe, con^cei1tj •'' • row-to his followers and open •>. : ; : exultation to -a few. adver- •dition anfl *jhe .,fulure.- 'JHe." opposition."' ing finance, ' conc'ern'in^ • the, saries,.. But ."today, most " was. Histoiy ..without^ .being;- HUBERT force'de frappe, cbhcermn'g- Frenchmen' were 'looking' to ' the past,.' since the .pa^t was 'p'ublish'er "of' te the shifts in foreign - policy; - -'the future, 'and.'their' mood- •• the Fourth Repiibjjc.- -.He - "Arnon'g General 'de.-Gaulle's "In the iiri'mediate 'futtife;:. ^wanted both -.that - France; [national] 'recoflc'iliatio'h •be''j- was -one of, hesitation. Eo'l-i' partisans as-, well '&s his ad- - i5 . 'lowing are ..the.jpbmments/. of in "ispouse-its.era, but also?.that r gins With Vigilance." • •' .France remain . .:. whatsit- •-; v^rsanes,-. , numerb.u,s, . were; - •WALDECK ROCHET;' Serji" ' ..some weli-Jaipwn- French' .. those 'w.hp'- questipiied ,them- men: ' ' ,,;..' " .:- ' , t, >•.., •^•was. . , •• '.• -•-•> '. • ''• retary General of the French'', _-•, "The^Gaullists-.thusi were • selves;- about the .--reasons for • Communist party—"The .de- ALAIN PEXREFITTE, ^e.ad.'-. 1 .such, la /risky initiative'.[as, > botlii.rthose .'modernists''• -m-' feat of Gaullism in tlie'refer-' of the 'National' Assembly's;" calling for a .Tefejendum], ' *• : a.te'nt oni-'ehang'es 'in '• industry- h endum'is' a striking'-testihioriy '_'-; Commission for Education," a' ! "Did , Charles .,'de- Gaulle '-GauIlist-^."Gr.eat " spfrPw- 'is.'' and agriculture and the '/old ' ' to the rise of tlie' pbvver-ipf. '""^ •'-guard' clinging'. to: .the> rgen- 'mean to mask a feeling ,pf workers and dembb'rats whose ''•' silent. sAil .those iwho^foft'so,' 1 jjnp.qtenc£ and of: defeat, that, •many .-'years' • -f o.llowEd- ;=and-:'--' --eral.—BS iif.'f-toi-.ai protector..-.' for "a monient "became visible 'vote make up the- hard -cbrfe'-" .supported- Gener-a'J--de ^Gaulle-— .....against.threatening chatjge. ..-. . - last May--and-!which,:-:step by pf the 'noes.' ''"., "'. working-' class. One may is. unforeseeable and im- eration, ;one :jnayi:,?be-. proud statesman determined .to gx- organizations. ;, JACQUfcS ^SAUVAfiEof, wen ask; whether, in a situa- provised." \ of . one's .country. What . ercise power and not to.dis- "Such a program should •one "of thj three radical' lead- tipn of increased contradic- " VALERY GISEARD. d'ES-" Fratice' has just* .done, no- solve it," indicate clearly the boldi-.ecol ers of last y£arV student . tio^s within the bourgeoisie, TAING, former Finance Min- country,,. eyer, had done be- ^ GEORGES BiBAULT, right, nomic, social and politicaf Irevqlts—|The defeat of the theNworkers are not in the '"tote'r^leiadfir. of Ule'Indenpen-.^ fcre';he'r>Tb rjply 'nb'; in a-- wing former Premier-^-"! am measures a government of; ireferendum is jipt'due, di- process '• of ^-becoming an '"'•dent Republicans, part allies, " plebiscite-'siS;. without histori- hostile ..:. to the ignorance the union of democratic irectly tp a^pffensive'Sby auxiliary; force for various part foes of the Gaullists— cal precedent^-'And-this vic- in which the regime which < forces would take in order to'

'the peo-pte-ibUtfto.'.the 'p'resL r - bourgeoisie." / ."France i.eetis a candidacy tory over itself— the most has just collapsed has held - establish in France an;', adv :,....., ,1 * •:*.:socialism." -. NEW YORK TIMES, Wednesday, 30 April 1969 A Irenchman Needs No Party to Run for Pre^ldenl

: By JOHN L. HESS De Gaulle Reform Plan servative ' anti-Gaullists. Mr. ts .unity was shattered by the Special to The New York Times Tixier.-Vignacpur' represented upheavals of May a year ago • PARIS, April .29—The mak- Got 47. 6% in Balloting the 'extreme'-, right.' The ' two and the legislative elections of 1 ing of a President in France other candidates .were "folk June, which were a debacle for Special to Tht New York Times .oric." -' . ' the left. — an exercise now under way PARIS, April .29— The final following the resignation of Following are ,th"e results of Left Federation Split results of the;Er'gnpbjqferen-'. General de Gaulle—is quicker ; the' first round: dum Sunday -pn-|li£}de Gaulle Mr. Mitterrand has persisted than in the United States and Votes ' % plan . for :;c6hstftutipriia.p'and De Gaulle ...... 10',828,523 44.64 :n preaching a united front of it" is more of a battle.-.royal. It ; Mitterrand 7,694,303 31.72 the left, while the radicals and regional 'reiqrmfwer.e as, "fol- Lecanuet 3,777,119 15.57 isValso less costly;", in- time ..and . '' '' '' Tixier-Vjgnancour. 1,260,208 5.19 many Socialist leaders lean to- morieyV : ::,;'-,:'••"•^'•:^-' -Registered' .-,.-.-.* ...... 29,394,456 Marcilhacy 415,018 1.71 ward rebuilding a "third force," ifiyfepdy: fpyer. .:23 years .of Abstaining ...... 5,832,452 Barbu .-.,:> 279,683 1.15 ranging from moderate con- Voting : ...... 23,562,004 age who;visas',;b'.een a French Valid ballots ...... 22,910,423 the four, defeated candidates servatives to Socialists. citizen fpc-;at.least five years did not give their supporters The traditional conservatives any clear advice on how to vote are split among three blocs: may enter the race. All he Valid in the second found. As it hap- Total Ballots Gaullists, Independent Republi- needs to do is post a forfeit : pene'd, 'these voters, generally cans and Center Democrats. of 10,000 francs ($2,000)- and Yes votes. ..-aO,905 ,453 47.69 moderate or cbnservative, split The Independents have in turn No. votes. ... 12,004,970' 52.40 evenly among the two leading the signatures of 100 sponsors The final Results were the oeen split between those loyal from at least '10 departments contenders. The results were: to the regime, including several total of the "votes in Metro- votes % Cabinet ministers and a major- or territories. The sponsors politan France and the over- De Gaulle ...... 13,083,699 55.19 ity of the party's, Deputies, and must be elective officials—dep- seas territories. , > Mitterrand . . 10,619,735 44.80 •hose who havf broken'- with uties, mayors, departmental The two last overseas, areas The great Jievvs of :the first it, including . the" party chair- to report were the Comoro round was .-'that General de man ValSfJy 'Giscarjl d'Esjaing. . councilmen — but there are Islands,' in the Indian Ocean, Gaulle.had received only a plu- 38,000 of them, and it is not y"pf .-the total vote; the and Pojynesik,:: 'inv/the .South difficult for a determined man Pacific..,.- •. ' V: ; . , ,) :. the news' of the second round to find enough signatures. was itha't^a.-large number of If the candidate fails to ob- con.s'eyyatVe".ci,ti?ens had voted tain 5 per. cent of the total Gaulle',;.- Itter.rknd, for' a:-.candidate':'w"ho rap? with vote in the first round; he loses t,, Je'an-Lppf's Tj:: Gprilmunist support rather than the forfeit. But if he gets ,'- - Rsiyrnpjid ^iMar y'btgVfbr General' de ;Gaulle. per cent or more,, he collects ' '' /;,($3ser,yers .haye.:''ppiri|ed ou1 10 times that sum,: or :$20,000 : that ^General-'fde 'Gaulle's s per- for his campaign expenses. Mr.J J^tferran'd; *hekd'; 6f/ th'e iance.:.>:i'gjf:S.un^ay's referen Gets Equal Time and Space :*' trt<&<; ' -^^ol-^ferliiplnt;—was' bet- «"--trli addition, he is .entitlec .. ter, affet atl:,?: ..tha:n his Sfirst- to an equal share of radio ani: dorsement pf .the, Cprrimupis'ts, round-vpe.rformance in 1965,; al- television time and equal space whp:/prp'vided: 'more than' v hall though the^|./"''tests ; werej 'no on election billboards. of . his; -'f. irst-round., ,-yptess.,- Mr; strictly '.'cprripar'able.'--''-: --:A-.\,..., , Technically, political "partie: The more or /less; united;;, I eft i do not nominate candidates. In Lecariuet was "the candidate pi made further gains in./tta^ fact, of course, the most serious the Center Democrats; or con islative elections.--pf v!96VA- but .•contenders are. designated by ;;the high commands of the lead- ing parties. •VA major consideration in De Gaulle's Resignation of their tactics is the fact'that Stirs Dismay Among Arabs days to "assure /Arab " Officials a candidate must receive a ma- that French friendship will en- jority to be elected on the first dure. . : ' : '•' : rPurid. If none does; the two BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 29— candidates with the' highest re- Informed sources, here.: -be- sults:; in the first round meet Arab reaction to General de lieve that the French assurances' in a runoff two weeks later — Gaulle's resignation has been a to Arab governments is? meant unless one of them should with- mixture of dismay and hope to check any adverse effect that draw in favor pf the third- that his pro-Arab policy will the general's resignation may place entrant.' ' not be discontinued by the new have.pniFrance's economic arid In the Jast presidential ^elec- trade rel.atipns.. .with';-, the j &rab French regime : : ; tions., in December,,1965, there counfri^s1;t;^' ;^4fr::.- jft';< tv:;a^ ! were si^cgfedida|<|s.r General de ijBrench diplomats in the Arab • • ' •.•mnj-..'.:; . •-.•f!^M^-::----- ••••"••" fapital$ have been going.-/-put

view, as well as in th_ 7V-,,.^ EAST HOPES FRENCH independent-minded Yugoslav WONTSHIFT POLICY press, appeared to suggest". Aris- ing concern that even a yictpri- spedil.to Th* New-fmi Times ous Gaullist candidate'', .'might VIENNA, April 29 —- Press gradually lead France back; to comments today Indicate that active- participation ' in v,:the; Eastern Europe hopes for the North Atlantic Teaty Organiza- victory of a leftist candidate m tion.'- .•..'''•'.•.' • '• .:'::::- the French presidential elec- A : theme running through tions so that General de all the Eastern Europe • com- Gaulle's independent foreign ment today was "that 'General. •"•*"-•'--~ ^"- continued. Polish jani ipers, '"- •line NEW

f 1SBITONNATO

Chief of Staff Proposes a Strategy Like Alliance's

. :{-;'• By DREW MIDDLETON •;'' : Special to The New York Times :"PARrS, April 29—The French Chief of Staff has proposed a policy of graduated action in cooperation with the Atlantip alliance against enemies from ;the-"east" . .. . . V,In an article in the authorita- tive -Review, of National De- . feiise, Gen. Michel Fpurquet, an air force officer, put forth pro- posals that would virtually align France with the stra- tegy of flexible response to Soviet aggression adopted by the alliance after France's withdrawal; from the military organization. ^General Fo.urquet's proposals nioved .significantly iaway from the doctrine of instant nuclear retaliation. - ..The strategic ideas 'outlined ii£ the article are regarded by qualified military sources as an indication that President de Gaulle was easing his opposi- tion to cooperation with the 'alliance before he resigned. ;. De Gaulle Approval Seen SThe revision of French1 mili- tary 'thinking outlined in the article could not have been written, they said, without the general's approval. Articles in the review are written Week: before the review appears. /'General Fourquet suggested th'at France abandon the "al '..oif-nothing" strategy of employ ing a nulcear striking force a\ thfe outset of hostilities anc should adopt a strategy of test ing the enemy with conven tional ground and air forces French forces in this even should coordinate their opera tipns with; those of the alliance .the general wrote. iA dispute over the point a which the alliance would us tactical nuclear weapons t compensate for a numerical in feriority in the event of a So yiet attack was one of the is sues leading to France's with drawal of her forces in 1966 General de Gaulle wanted as surances of their early^use. -, -French sources reported -tha General Fourquet • 'Jrecentl asked Gen. Lyman ft. -Lenini zer Supreme Allied Gommanc er; Europe,' at what point th alliance would provide: Franc with tactical nuclear .weapons ' iGeneral Leminitze'r .told ,tl" French, that 'in .the.veyent; p£./{ attack aii^ "--—"-toi-i:-=1;^—-^" op'eratipn^ HEW YORK TIMES, Wednesday, 50 April 1969

, inTwo Days, $fifferre fe. an' acknowledged] loses Its Two Princes \ ?nti-ebmmurast He would seekf ' '' GisearJ''' dffis not o* Jus lert tut on , *;.. Specif Lo The New York Times Jus ngHt-T-m Mr Poher's Cen nance Minister.' OFG1LLISTPARW ^rist territory. ROMEi April 29—Andorra. Four -'bi)t of five Gisca-rdisti !i The Socialist leaders coupled. —population 1,4,408, are^-178'ft deputiestj/jre reliably reported iheir endorsement of Mi1. Def^ ..square miles, principal jtidiis- to 'have'- endorsed .Mr, Bompi-' try smuggling;—lost its fec- dou...Sincef.he •andiMfeGiscard ferre with* a slap. at -the- Corriv). ohd chief of ijate in two Jays . : Chances of Former Premier rnunists. The party leader, Guy; : d'Esraing-'^re old eiremies,' this, iilolle't, announted1 that the •today, .j .' .1 cpula only1, be • interpreted as. .a Are-Considered Good— '. Th'e tiny principality'at. the ; party had ^decided against ac- border d|f France/and-. Spain disavowal.. .of * Mr., Giscard Defferre Likely to Ran cepting' a 'Communist offer for is und^r .the jo.iivt sovereignty dlfistaing. (• •-•-'•' •' ' < discussion of a possible joint| of "co-princes," -the French . Mir. Giscard d'Estaing broke progra'm. •• ' ' President and .the Bishop of wjth. thg-;. Gaullist main force ': A Presidential" ele'cK'oii... ;•„.( '"'Mr„ .i-.Urgel. ajain^-'who hold joint during -the referendum .cam- MAY DAY PARADE I Mollet >sai(l,w , occasiofl -forh'veto: rights' 'over the Andor-. paign. ' ":. '• - ' ' .coordination. ran Council's decisions. Students Affected Parade < Mr. -Pon.er, '•£ small rotund Yesterday "Prince", de The Confederation of man whoVhas cast himself in Gaulle' resigned. And. today Union Group Cancels Ma'rqfr the je'aSsurtng 'role .of a modest, Canceled,'-the May Day: parade Unimportant Frenchman, today Pope;'Paul VI accepted ,the after .extreme leftist student or- Saying It Fears Clashes resignation, for rea'sons of ganizStibB-' 'served notice . .that continued to wbrkjtfhis SenateMage; of the Most Rev. Ramon. office. ' He .still, 'occupies they .planned to march' alajig-.;. if Students Join In jus apartment in the -. Senate Iglesias Navarri, Bishop of ' side the. wdrlcers. This wquld l ^Urgel. He is 80 years old, . almost, certainly have .Ie4', %. building, the historic Palais,. Lux- Until the French-' electcyrate ' embourg on the edges,,of,.;the1 Scuffles ajad.-perhaps.toibloody.; ' By HENRY TANNER j-atin Quarter, where "IRiche-1 and Pope Paul.-provide'two- clashes as it did'' o'nf-3»tew-^c>. SpedH to The New lock Time lieu and Napoleon lived.;1; '/• new prLrife.es, the'iAridorrans 'casipns a year'agp-.--" ' "r.'^Vi-^l PARTS, April ,29-^Forme: ; -He has made it known that] must ma^e do, wfth One tem- The anarohijt'Student-jgrdttps 1 porary olie, Jnterirn-.Piesiderit regiird the Cpmmuriist- jpw,\y- Premier Georges- Pompidou- to lie will not move into .the/Sly- Alain Poh'er,.pf France. "'""'• t day announced his candidac: s&e Palace :before Friday. Gen- as their worst,'enenjy,'$$vvice eral de Gaulle's resignation versa.'- ' '. i" -qk •••• 1,v'' . for the succession to General d took -effect iat noon.,Dn.-.Monday. "After the decision of Presf- • But-the Parjs chaW^fit the Gaulle and immediately . re- ^bout 12 hours after -it became dent de Gaulle to renounce his vconfederation fIsb^afeuseci -Hie ceived the endorsement of the clear, that the French' electorate 'GUu-llists of pl'annijigitb. 'fasfer 1 mandate and .in the uncertainty 1 1 Union for the Defense of the had rebuffed tjTe -plan for re- that 'clashes . 'The Chapter; saicl .jtfis"* Republic, the Gaullist party, gionall and consHtutionaqonititutionall reforrerorm ' .PrevajlsV in - thlpcountry ft Tiacfc received "specifiejjinfq] tod , The National Assembly heard on which *e'' had staked -his ay.-.I fhave .decided,- to «6, future. ' ''. : before -tte'. French i electorate.;' '' a glowing but sad tribute to |i On...Frida,. y -also -Mr."P'ohe'r ' " "In tiding 'this;''' " I feel ''that Tl were fprr/ied 1™,*,%*™ General de Gaulle by Jacques ill preside for the first .time.l i y duty, ..tp the to 'infiltrate the'parade. Chaban-Delmas, its Speaker. ,o maintain con- .the eortimUtees', ^.et up in Most of the Deputies rose in -a all cities -anet'.: niajdr.' t-owhsi bounce the date of 'the PresV mt stability and to were the Gaullist infantry dtir- long, subdued ovation to the : *™ S : jdential ''election. - ',->,,r-.-r-.. m - .preparing for the ing "the referendum campaign. general. Only the Communists i June' r -is being; '.tj ^I'future."- .. .,;...•'- •' Their members': served- as .'se- and some other Deputies of the -J. theinftist likely-day for ^v .Mahyj-paJitiGJans and observ- curity squads .at v'Gaullist left remained seated, their irst rfftind' with"a! rSioff twSlers ydtted surprise at the terse- rallies.. 'arid;;'- faced lowing arms folded. —*i,reeks^ ia'fel-'£l'*r. i:f* no iaiidid'aj1^-i;-jLie- - ob-i- -l««/.nesxs o~ft u;his^' .referenc_rtc e *to- General^-^.^-i, groups'in."nightly clashjes ,as lins a., inajority. ,'vftte' ruribff derGaulle.. both' sides" 'sought to .piit up . The Communist-led Gen- ;i v 1 the twp"to.p /In. the caucus of ,,his their posters and tear down eral Confederation .of Labor, '; ,.-, •;?". ' .- r.,' Pompidpu',was the other/side's." ..,'" .' "* '. France's largest union group : i Mr. :'Pompidou -'acte1 d ? witfi .3iave 1sppken! ' fe?l.: -: The'u'riions apd other 'oppi3si announced that it had can. characteristic speed .'jh -an? irigly "6t jBis, "'deep ' sadness" ';at1 1 tipri-'"groups that campaignE'd Aeled the traditional May.Daj Ijiouricin'g-i..his candfdacy, ;:S;this the.gerierai.gerieraKW depdeparturei . ' n ,.. agairist President de Gaulle ate ihiorriing^just befgrevthe p'ar- parade in Paris "to ' avert a ; Mr,- Pompidou • received .the.'d•deter.jniiie'i d >to; thwart Gaullist: f liamentary'.'group wt ;hjs '.p'.arijt endorserrteht of-- Eor«ign«Mirji|^|tpredictions pf-jmre.st.; ' ? - serious provocation" .•'planned ,was to.:meet. ' j.f\°" -••'''••" t^W- -Afl^Ti^f • .1S^UU^-^,S';i-lis#. '•&. '•"• '.Cancellation! p|' the tradi- by Gaullist opponents arid ex aon'al.irriarch frort" the ,Place ;de' treme .left'wing -gtudeiifr.b'rgani ( zations.,[The National Students Union said on Wednesday i* would go ahead with plans t< rniani ralh.eiv. thaii to theyppiiG'! hold a May Day- rally/in Paris 1 GbuntrJ\sJlicge5t uniori'-ito make m aou '•cal .leaden. •:;,'•.. .V '-.•; ' ,:• ';• -'. :". ^-£sBe(:ialiy,-.,tjK£-days after the left r-'--*''"-'1^-*''-3'"*".*''0'^'------Reuters re.j|ortad'.>l'" '•"' •-.'•' »SKf9 P' ^' -anno-unce- '' 'Mn, .'P.o(fcipfapu'j .appe-ared; f-' -Chances Considered&aod '*"" j(as terse. It said; •• , sured :also.;<)f tHfe-.'Slippor't':, tionl -•'' Mr: Pompidou is regarded as 'a' formidable candidate who has Ik'-real; chance of- vanning th" election, . V . 4,VjHis .opponents have until Ma; 'OS'tp deciSrertfllrtiseiv.es. . .-''Itthe e'veriing

Speculators Drita Franc to Ltftoer Limit and Mark , Near Allowable Peak

4l to" The New Y«rk Times S^&pril 30^-Fresh spec- ulation jrlJuffeted Europe's' key currencies today as market talk of inevitable parity changes in- tensifie'd. * There were unconfirmed ru-' mors in the London financial district "that the French and West '"German Governments jwere -already ^ngaged in^ deli- cate currency negotiations. Frankfurt banking sources hand,- pushe.d -''closer ' to -its reported continued heavy upper limit in'relation'to the foreign buying of marks, which doO$K.: ;|Geni;an officials ,are brought as much as $2(10- iibw c'ohceding that they Have million., into Germany, lifting an uhidervalued ; currency, but estimates of the inflow since they stress. Jthey will not- re- value upward unilaterally. At Monday to $500-million. 3.9710 nSarks, to the dollar, It Was Sunday's referen- the closing ;fate, was only 10 iduin : defeat for : French Presi- points: above the permissible dent de Gaulle,and his resignar high. -"••''":-"•: '• -, Finance; Minister Franz-Josef tioh\ on Monday that pouched' Strauss iJias,1 gone'so far as ;to off the new round of currency cite specifi6^;figu'res—8 to 10 worries.' .•"/ • ' -••.- - - ; per- centr—if a .rate change ; The' franc, protected by comes. He has said the Ger- manj-Governmijnt 'wants to act stringent --exchange controls, in concert with other nations. caine under pressure' Monday,: f Currency jitters' 'also' affected .recovered somewhat .yesterday* the poimd, although opinion is jwith central-bank support, and divided as to whether it would fell, today to its lowest permis- change in a general European realignment. The pound weak- sible level tinder the inter- ened to $2i3855. Its lowest national currency rules. At r permissible-level is $2.38. - 4.9740 frahcs to-the' dollar, the '.French reserves are continu- rate is at a level unseen since ing to bleed away. In the week the November franc - mark ended April 24, they fell by crisis,:^ whenv.^the•: French.;;and $42.6.-milli6n to $3,772,000,000, the twelfth successive weekly loss. .French prices, which rose pressure -:iy j^psu.ii^-uiaugcjK.v- ,. ^ by nearly; 6 per ce,nt last year, ::3:-TJ«i|^||^^ffi:!^|'Otiie| are up ag£iir;at ,ari- annual rate ,pf. 6.4 pe'r icerii: I11 the' "first - HEW YORK TIMES, Thursday, 1 May

|artyi: the Independent Republi- cans. In making his bid for the endorsement of the Gaiillists Is Backed by Rival and the Independent "Republi- cans yesterday, Mr. Pompidou, By HENRY TANNER according to some of his lis- teners stressed the theme .of . Special to The NeWXiork lima continuity .and underlined his PARIS, April 30—Former Pre- fidelity to basic Gaullist poli- mier Georges Pompidou's cam- cies, especially in foreign "af- paign for the presidency picked fairs, while at the same time up speed today. hinting at some change's. } He won the endorsement of On foreign affairs, he is Val^ry Giscard d'Estaing, an understood . to have indicated keen interest in the future of old rival who was forced to Europe and greater flexibility scrap, or at least shelve, his on British entry into the Com- own .presidential ambitions. mon Market. It also appeared less likely On domestic 'policies -he was that Alain Poher, the Interim said to have stressed his in- President, would become an ac- tention to give priority to eco- nomic issues. He is reported to tive candidate. Mr. Pphef, a have' sought to reassure the middle-of-the-roader, would be business community by repeat- Tha New York Time* one of Mr. 'Pompidou's strong- ing his known misgivings about Valery Giscard d'Estaing est opponents; His departure "participation" of workers - in from the race would .vastly im- management of enterprises, an avowed goal of President de Couve de Murville down, stand- prove the former Premier's Gaulle... ' : ing stiffly at attention as Mr. chances. : Poher enters the room, smiling As late as yesterday evening, and smoking a cigar. The cap- Mr. Giscard d'Estaing's deci- Mr. Giscard d'Estaing made it tion is: 1 "At ease," implying sion followed the defection of plain that -if he was not a can- that, after 11 years of Genera leading members of his didate, he would prefer >Mr. de Gaulle, more civilian-mindec Poher or Antoine Pinay, a for- times have finally arrived. mer Premier, to Mr. Pompidou. Today, Mr. Poher called ir But: Mr. Pinay said in effect Pierre de Leusse, the..head 01 that he was. riot interested'and the commission that .supervises ;> Poher remained silent, while the government-run radio anc many leading Independent Re- television network and ; is publicans openly supported Mr. understood to have" pressed Pompidou. •"-....' sharply for greater objectivity Having: no trump: cards left in political reporting. Mr. Giscard d'Estaing declared this .morning,, that he '/would Programs Are Suspended. "not be a candidate," and: this Later, the netw.prk an- evening his group catiie out nounced that several programs unanimously foiv Mr. Pompidou. that'had been under attack for a partisan Gaullist':.'approach Mr. Poher's aides, meanwhile, : said today that .the interim would be suspended until after President was not now thinking the. election. : • of entering the race :and wanted Also today, the Interior Min- to concentrate pn his present istry, banned all May,: Day pa tasks, while leaving: all' his op- rades arid political demonstra tions open. ; ..'., . ..-;•.'; tions in Paris tomorrow. Small and-round, relaxed aric . Yesterday, the. -. Comihunist unheroic in. appearance; Mr. led Gerieral Confederation o Labor canceled.: its traditiona Poher has belied, at least until r now, the image that : hostile May Day parade ; from the newspaper cartoonists have Bastille to the Place de la Re drawn of him. : . :. publique. The .'• union said i One showed him eagerly try- was doing so/b^cause it hac ing to climb up into a presiden- "precise information." that both tial chair made for a man twice Gau'lliss and V anarchists in his'size; Another; showed him tended to provoke clashes. standing in front of a mirror Other groups,; including th trying on General de Gaulle's French' Student Union, followee far-too-large dress uniform. • up today by canceling thei: But a front-page drawing to- parade plans. day in Le Canard Enchains, the 'The students, however, criti 'bitterly \anti-IGaullist satirica cized the Government's ban weekly, pictured Friday's Cabi- and-called a meeting at the net meeting, .at; which , Mr Cit£ Universitaire,' an interria Poher will' preside for the. first tionalj campus of dormitories on time:. ' -•• •':"."; the "i southern outskirts of-Paris It, shows the Cabinet mem- "to dispuss the.••politica l: situ; bers^ cfrom Premier Maurice ation.""f''••""- ;fc • •';;-• >-:,:'' Friday, 2 May 1969

-'marched every year since the ;lend of World War II, the air . jijshould have been filled with Unions Hold Rallies Indoors '(•the1 strains of the "Interna- |tionale." —Police Out in Force : ji Left's Weakness Reflected ' {f Today's .quiet on the empty By HENRY TANNER 'jbouleyards was a measure of v Special to The New Yorfc Times •:the disarray and the weakness -••- PARIS, May 1. '•— Post-de i of the French Left. -'Gaulle France passed a test " The left-wing parties have as May Day, a poten- ;;not been* buoyed by the unex- dangerous time, came ?pected victory of the Oppo- sition over General de Gaulle. -.off without major violence any- |]This victory,'in, fact, .was .far . where in the country. jjless due to the Left than to i;.-; The achievement was due to pthe middle-class, middle -of-the ^-tacit cooperation between left- nroad voters who deserted the %ing union leaders and a man I'general after' having supported "they hate-^Raymond Marcellin, jjhim for 11 years. ,j Two moire members of the Tfhe Interior Minister of the iJLeft announced their candi- '^lame-duck Gaullist Govern- jjdacies for the presidency to- i-ment. ',..-,, -day. Neither has a serious [Jchance, but each will help to ai'The, unions refrained in ; Nearly all major cities from Ksplit the leftist vote.' :.' - !; One was Alain Savaryv a staging • their traditional May NSl-year-oId dissident Socialist, 'iJay parades and .held small Fwhose resistance record during ^indoor rallies instead. ,jthe war was so brilliant that jjli Mr.' Marcellin,- an outspoken [•he was named a member of "and tough enforcer of law and fjthe very select order of Gen- order,. deployed - police in- dem- ';eral de Gaulle's Compagnons ]] de la Liberation. >onstrative strength wherever j! The other was Michel Rocard, .^there was a threat of trouble. i;36-year-old head of the United 1., The only disturbances were ^Socialist party, a small group ^caused by small bands of anar- ''appealing mainly to intellectu- Jchist and other revolutionary ials who despise what they call J|the petit bourgeois character '"students who made -quick ap- iiof the Socialist party and the jpearances here and there in the i; bureaucratic totalitarianism of Capital, 'brandishing red arid lithe Communists. iblack flags and shouting slo- i! 'gans against both the Gaullists h Defferre Also Candidate .and the organized Left. The students quickly dispersed j; The first left-wing figure to when^the police arrived. ; h announce- his candidacy was -in _ [iGaston Defferre,. the Mayor of is;'- Reasons for Cancellation ii Marseilles. _A Socialist, he re- £': The unions 'canceled their ijceiyed the endorsement of the ^•parades after it became clear j!Socialist party but has. yet to '-that -the small revolutionary. ;| negotiate , for the support of "•Student groups were deter- ij other non-Communist leftist ''ffiined to join the marchers, |j groups. jraisirig the threat of- ugly 'i Mr. Defferre is an avowed jclashes. The Communist-led p anti-Communist and his pres- iConfederation,of Labor, which ||ence in the race would preclude jwas the first to decide oh can- iitlie possibility that Commu- jcellation, also charged that jinists and non-Communists coul_d jfcraullist commandos planned to jjunite behind a single candi- anfiltrate the'march. Ij, The Communists would then ij The unions, along with'all the [jhave to put up a candidate iother political formations that fjof their own. They are reluctant [voted "no" in Sunday's refer- fjto do so, it is believed, because •endum, bringing about Presi- ;|they.are apt to fare, worse in Ijdent •_ de Gaulle's resignation, [|a presidential election than they ?have a supreme interest in ^normally do in legislative elec- Showing that Gaullist predic- 'itions, in which they are assured ftions of social turmoil were u" ' Ijof about a 'fifth of the total {founded. . ... (ivotes on the average. ji • Mr. Marcellin',- acting after jj Guy Mollet, the leader of ijthe unions; had made their, deci- I] the Socialist party, today un- |;sipn, banned all May Day dem- |i derlined the split between the upnstrations in Paris, thus mak- (| Communist and non-Com- |:ing it impossible for the ex- limunist left by rejecting—for >:tremist students .to parade : •'the second,,.dmean three;rdays Talone. '. jj-r^ : Cbrnffiun^t'^rbiJOspt^for May Day is normally a time ijOf^jpintvjjrogjjam. NEW YORftKf MMES, Saturday, 5 May 1969 r ,-r tfKv^\V.--w»J®«3'tl.k'"-'"-^ LKBOx-^a. ! • » * • „

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I jj h. . ; PARI^, Monday, May 5r (Reu- Periodically, representatives ters) — The French Socialist of the two groups left their party early today chose Mayor respective congresses to drive Gaston Defferre of Marseilles as into 'Paris and discuss the pos- its candidate for the presiden- sibility of backing . ine same tial election June 1. presidential candidate. Bvj.-late \ The'decision—which'came at evening it appeared that the negotiations were fruitless. 'the end of a long and at times The 'Socialists today changed t chaotic meeting —was carried their^name, and will 'be known | by 2,032 votes, with 227 against from now on simply as the So-| Mr. Defferre. The vote followed cialist party. Up till now their] the decision of Alain Savary to full name' was Parti Socialistei withdraw from the contest. S.F.I.O. — the initials standing| The selection •- came after for Section Francaise de 'L'ln- the party voted 1,574 to 1,567 ternationale Ouvriere. The par- to consult with other left-wing ty was founded in 1905 under groups before naming its can- Gaston Defferre the Second International. didate immediately. The idea or a Broadly based 'As 'soon as the results of sec- woulou d not be a presidential new Socialist party was first cond vote on consulting with ™ d'?d "° |JUl- fort1 LJ1 tihl lasJOJtL O U 1 1 J 1 1 1C1 after, O.1! LCI "ther leftist, parties were n-|canaiaal:ecandidate-. a The attack emphasized the the devasting defeat of the left .unced Mr. Savary withdrew in the legislative elections. The his candidacy. division and disarray among the French left. The division hope was to form one strong The second vote on consult- non-Communist leftist party. ing with other leftists had was even geographically ap- parent. So far, this hope has failed to come as a result of a demand materialize — only a few small by Mr. Defferre, \yho had.xom- Mr, Mitterrand's small Con> plained that the first vote was vention party held its congress splinter groups declared their irregular. He had said that if in the modest residential sub- adherence today. the .second vote echoed the first urb of- St. Gratien just north of Mr. Mitterrand, from the one -he, would withdraw, but on Paris. The Socialists met on other side of town, denounced the second /ballot delegates the southeastern fringe of the the new party as "nonexistent" votedI..l,£i5 to 1,500 to select a city, in the working-class sub- and said his .group would not candidate immediately. There urb -of Alfortville. join. " , : were' 176' abstentions. « r\S- The .marathon session, which began, yesterday morning, had been "expected to select either Mr. Defferre or' Mr. Savary. The decision to pick a candi- date came after Francois Mit- terrand, who won 45 per cent .of the vot_e against President de Gaulle in the last presidential election in 1965, announced yesterday that he would not be a candidate this. time. 'Mitterrand Won't Run : -PARIS, May 4^-Francois Mitv terand attkeke'd some of his fel- low .leaders,, of .the French 'left today-' |n announcing;;' that' .he NEW YORK TIMES, Tuesday, 6 Mav 1Q6Q ]Fremh Reds Select Duclos to Oppose Pom Gaulle in 1965, still is pushing absence, so far, of a moderate will necessarily have to look By HENRY TANNER ! Sp«Stl to Thi N«w York Times or such a compromise. nonleftist candidate who would for votes on his right—namely PARIS, May 5 — The Com- But a compromise is so un- compete with him for the vote in the center of the political .ikely that Le Monde, France's of the middle classes. spectrum where Mr. Poher's munists today named Jacques eading newspaper, conceded Alain Poher, the interim pres- strength would be. Mr. Poher Duclos, a 72-year-old party /ictory today to Georges Pompi- ident, could be such a candi- is hemmed in, on his left-by functionary, as their candidate dou, the Gaullist candidate. The date, but he appeared to be Mr. Defferre and on his right for president of France: question is no longer whether reluctant. He announced today by Mr. Pompidou. Wr. Pompidou wins the election, he would make his decision at No other Centrist politician The choice and the way in is showing any desire to enter which it came about illustrates >ut "whether he wins it in the the end of the week. first round," wrote Pierre Mr. Poher would be a dan- the race. Most of the Cen- the disarray into which the Viansson-PonteV the paper's gerous opponent for Mr. Pom- trist leaders, like Jacques Du- French Left, both Communist eading political correspondent. pidou. His • reluctance to run hamel, appear to be maneuver- and non-Communist, finds itself It is not only the division is based- on the fact that Mr. ing for a Cabinet'post'or other a week after participating prom- of the Left that plays into Mr. Defferre, though a Socialist, is awards in a future" Pompidou regime. " fy'n-^n. roasii. inently in the opposition's Pompidou's hands but also the an avowed anti-Communist and .. . , ^,r- .;

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tiye last-minute 'negotiations with the Socialists on a possible single candidat: e for the entire Left. .;. : :; • .•''••• •-... ' Mr. 'Duclos is regarded as a .candidateiwho was chosen.for his appeal , to faithful pa^ty members''plily. He is not likely to win the :Communists>':ahy votes either among leftist in- tellectuals.' and ; white-edilar workers o£ among non-ComniU; nistworkm'en. r '.-•^'V-. , "A candidate of resig'hatiim, perhaps consolidation, Jbut "not of • electoral conquest,";: an'' ,isx- pert in French Communist ;af- [ fairs called Mr. Duclos ' n. Mr Duclos's entry mi t|3ie votes^of the Le r^ccounts for the buj v opposition to the Gau . be split between (M[r, and Gaston Defferre,'tli ri ist Mayor of Marseilles, who "re- ceived the endorsement of^his party early today The deadline for registration of candidates is still a week off, theoretically giving the Communists and non-Cornmu- just leftists time to agree on, swho would repre- ltire * NEW YORK TIMES, Tuesday, 6 May 1969

i'Kf«wivi?!»«surope[ i-s^-j Afte. '-1 r d, e ftGaull« *i » *ise ^r-i Prime Minister Wilson struck the right note at the twentieth anniversary meeting of the Council of .Europe. .He reiterated Britain's determination to join the European -Community and pro]ected a larger, stronger Western Europe, speaking with "a more united voice-in the affairs of. the world." Some of Britain's .continental allies had hoped Mr. Wilson would go further - on this occasion and demand early admission to the.Common:;Market, but such a plea, might have; backfired. It would 'have seemed too patent art effort to. take-.. advantage: of President de •Gaujle's exit and the resulting time of uncertainty, and adjustment for France.,:- iV"\ The better strategyifor^:Britain is to. continue to prove itself a "good European" in every possible way, while awaiting a -signal Jrqnl its European .allies, and preferably from, Francej on the right:irioment to;renew an active bid for Community membership. I/Ir. Wilson's emphasis ,on European unity and, influence is a good beginning. Another is Britain's bitffor private'bilateral talks with France on Europe's .future^r-a;, bid.made before de Gaulle's departure. ".. ':.[-'*'.]"•/ . \ The best sign that Britain's wait may Snot be over- longi cam? from f6rnier Pfemier Georges^Pompidou in his ifirst stateipeitittd the'Gaullist party as a Presiden- tial candidate. He said^the question of British member- ship; "should :'be're-examinedi" No .other serious Presi- dential .candidate., will; seek to:, maintain General de Gaulle's bar:tqrBritish entry if the Gaullist homihee himself shows new flexibility on -ithe question.'.:, If:Britain.;is.right not to make demands bii Franc?: in this period, so will Washington be well advised not to mpy.e;overswiftly toward resurrecting any variant, of John .FJ Kennedy's "Grand Design" for Atlantic cooperationf or toward'/^integration of French forces in a NATO alliance" still under American leadership if not domination. , - The fact is': that 'even before General de Gaulle's departure, iFraiice'^ defense ^policy had undergone a dramatic reversal—away from go-it-alone reliance ojti •^massive nuclear, retaliation' back toward priority for a graduated response to any Soviet blow; at Western Europe "in the closest coordination" with the NATO allies. If France wishes at any ;time to move from "closest.coordination" back to integration, the initia- tive should come from Paris. ^, _ , Washington can help most by concenlratnig on dis- *cree e\ move~s to shore up the alliance;V. I'n doing so it might bear in mind that when General de Gaulle spoke, as he sometimes did, of a ("European Europe" standing as an equal partner of the United States, he struck a responsive chord even among Europeans vlmplacably opposed to,most/of^his pqlicles. i ^ ' ^ .. . •:'_ :..',_ ^ _ . _ ^ o- NNNN NOR 63 5 CK 1645

NOR 63 6 EPD544 1646 ! NIGHTLEAD MIDEAST (CHANGING DATELINE)! BY REUTERS (UNDATED). , , JORDANIAN AND ISRAELI FORCES TODAY (MONDAY) EXCHANGED TIRE IN THE NORTHERN JORDAN VALLEY AS ISRAELIS AND EGYPTIANS SHELLED EACH OTHER ACROSS THE SUEZ CANAL. THERE WERE NO JORDANIAN CASUALTIES IN THE JORDAN" VALLEY DUELS FORU MILES SOUTH OF THE SEA OF GALILEE AND IN THE AL-MANS^IYA AND AL-BAQOURA AREAS, ACCORDING TO A MILITARY SPOKESMAN IN AMMAN, HE SAID THE ISRAELIS INITIATED FIRING IN BOTH CASES, A MILITARY SPOKESMAN IN CAIRO SAID ISRAELI FORCES OPENED UP TANK AND SMALL ARMS FIRE MONDAY AGAINST EGYPTIAN POSITIONS AT VARIOUS POINTS ALONG THE SUEZ CANAL, ONE ISRAELI SOLDIER WAS WOUNDED DURING A BRIEF EXCHANGE OF FIRE BETWEEN ISRAELI AND SYRIAN TROOPS IN THE GOLAN HEIGHTS, HE SAID, LEBANESE POLITICAL LEADERS MET MONDAY WITH PRESIDENT CHARLES HELOU TO THRASH OUT A POLICY TOWARD PALESTINIAN COMMANDOS WHO USE LEBANON AS A SPRINGBOARD FOR ATTACKS AGAINST ISRAEL, THE GOVERNMENT OF PREMIER RASHID KARAMI RESIGNED FRIDAY AFTER CLASHES BETWEEN SECURITY FORCES AND DEMONSTRATORS WHO WANT AN END TO GOVERNMENT RESTRAINTS ON THE COMMANDOS, AT LEAST 15 PERSONS WERE KILLED IN THE CLASHES AND A STATE OF EMERGENCY WAS DECLARED FROM WEDNESDAY UNTIL MIDNIGHT SUNDAY. KMORE) (AHD) RC/WP

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