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31 And yet de Gaulle himself was remarkably confident that the army would toe the line.

32 In the Middle East crisis de Gaulle adopted a specious and unpopular neutrality.

33 On arrival at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport he immediately applied for political asylum.

34 I arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport in a very thoughtful frame of mind.

35 De Gaulle apparently did not care to give ministers an opportunity to make important decisions without his supervision.

36 I guess he'd picked De Gaulle as the most sympathetic and scholarly-looking.

37 He thought it a punishment for the note the young cleric had tried to smuggle out via De Gaulle.

38 Yet, while many of his followers fretted about it,[http://sentencedict.com/de gaulle.html] de Gaulle viewed the situation with remarkable sang-froid.

39 De Gaulle launched the Rassemblement in a speech at Strasbourg on 7 April 1947.

40 On the other hand, thirteen percent hardly constituted the tidal wave of popular support that de Gaulle was looking for.

41 Such a description, attractive to critics of the United States from de Gaulle leftwards, is an oversimplification.

42 Yet, in retrospect, there were also warning signs for de Gaulle.

43 De Gaulle had, indeed, incriminated one of Monsignor's aides, the one who had knocked into him.

44 Charles de Gaulle once lamented that he simply could not rule over a country that had 385 different kinds of cheese!

45 The economic problems, the exhaustion brought by war, and divisions between the political parties all caused difficulties for de Gaulle.

46 Throughout his long struggle with Giraud, de Gaulle depicted himself as the one who was in touch with the aspirations of the Resistance.

47 More than one Gaullist found himself in the difficult situation of having to give de Gaulle a lecture in Gaullism.

48 But the fact was that the world did not change as de Gaulle had predicted.

49 Emboldened by their mandate from the voters, the parties challenged de Gaulle at every turn.

50 To cut a long story short, they did rejoin us at lunch-time, De Gaulle no longer looking shit-scared so much as downright shifty.

51 Over the following months, de Gaulle assumed total control over political affairs and substantially reduced Giraud's authority as Commander-in-Chief.

52 On balance, the evidence does not support this tactical scenario, although it may well have occurred to de Gaulle.

53 That gave the journos their opportunity to hound De Gaulle without restraint.

54 At the end de Gaulle would lead the assembled masses in a thunderous Marseillaise.

55 I don't believe Wellington stayed to give De Gaulle moral support.

56 De Gaulle was too embarrassed to make a scene of it.

57 De Gaulle meant, as you would realise, that he wanted to take her out of earshot and have a whisper.

58 Second, de Gaulle proved exceptionally well-suited to this role of disembodied voice.

59 De Gaulle himself was shocked by the events and at first hesitant about what to do.

60 De Gaulle had already experienced a variation on this theme in 1945-46.