France: Apres Moi? Moi!

Apres de Gaulle, qui? goes France's favorite guessing game. Who indeed? Though le grand Charles has often hinted that he would like to retire when his term expires in 1965, he has carefully avoided designating his heir. Last week De Gaulle finally ended the suspense. At Orange, his first stop on a five-day stump tour of the eastern Rhone valley, he declared oracularly: "The essential thing for Charles de Gaulle, President of the Republic, is to know what the French people want. I have the impression that I have discerned this for...

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