The Week

• The Ripon Society, which is the Free Speech Movement within the GOP, has been advertising its wares in the classified columns of the Nation, which is the Free Lunch Movement within American journalism just this side of the Marx-on-the-rocks crowd, to no one’s particular surprise, since the Nation, the nation’s oldest journal of adamantine leftism, backed Lindsay, hero of Ripon, for Mayor.

• The question Frenchmen had been asking since Dec. 19 was, who would hold what portfolio in de Gaulle’s second-term cabinet? The rumor was floated that André Malraux would be dropped, which took the headlines but didn’t happen. The rumor was floated that Michel Debré, de Gaulle’s first premier, would be reinstated. He was, as a sort of super-minister, in charge of a consolidated economic ministry. This meant the bouncing of Giscard d’Estaing, the Finance Minister whose policies had managed to irritate businessmen, laborers, union leaders, farmers, and white collar workers, while keeping France’s boom booming. What de Gaulle has done is a) to indicate to the above-mentioned segments of the population that he is with them and b) to muddy up the question of succession. With two of his premiers now in the cabinet who is to say which is the Dauphin?

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William F. Buckley Jr.

• The Ripon Society, which is the Free Speech Movement within the GOP, has been advertising its wares in the classified columns of the Nation, which is the Free Lunch Movement within American journalism just this side of the Marx-on-the-rocks crowd, to no one’s particular surprise, since the Nation, the nation’s oldest journal of adamantine leftism, backed Lindsay, hero of Ripon, for Mayor.

• The question Frenchmen had been asking since Dec. 19 was, who would hold what portfolio in de Gaulle’s second-term cabinet? The rumor was floated that André Malraux would be dropped, which took the headlines but didn’t happen. The rumor was floated that Michel Debré, de Gaulle’s first premier, would be reinstated. He was, as a sort of super-minister, in charge of a consolidated economic ministry. This meant the bouncing of Giscard d’Estaing, the Finance Minister whose policies had managed to irritate businessmen, laborers, union leaders, farmers, and white collar workers, while keeping France’s boom booming. What de Gaulle has done is a) to indicate to the above-mentioned segments of the population that he is with them and b) to muddy up the question of succession. With two of his premiers now in the cabinet who is to say which is the Dauphin?