FRANCE'S MANY-SIDED POLITICS RELATED TO INDIVIDUALISM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000400280008-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: January 21, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 2000/05/24: i9Q-RM1?Q5-
RICHMOND, VA.
NEWS-LEADER
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211965
JAN
FORMER C.I.A. MAN ADDRESSES LIONS CLUB
Fiance's any- ;dec PoIiHcs
f
Related fo_ Inthvidu&isrn.,,1
Political parties in the na-
tional election. colonel.
DeGaulle, contrary to what DeGaulle believes firmly
many people seem to feel, is that any alliance or western
very much a friend of the s European organization needs
United States, said Culonel France more. than France
Sands. "He considers the nerds it, assel?ted Sands.
United States. and Great Br j- ills recalcitrant. Allifurle,
,
COL. O. J. SANDS JR.
Europed Europe is r ranee
DeGaulle or Anarchy and that their destinies arc
i inseparable.
The French are that way Also, ~ saicl the colonel, Dc-
flee is this feeling, said Sands.
When the French govern-
m?'nt swidcnly asked for U. S.
gold for 150 million dollars It
Was not spile, not remotely
connected with any plan to
uali4s, sufficiency of Fiance Colonel ~ai.d ti.uuls - ---
Col. Oliver J.' Jack" Sands "Furry move DeGauht
Sand pointed out thatlhC
Jr. (ret.), of Richmond, who
served in France and with the French as a people do less makes," said Colonel Sands,
Central . Inteifi ;once- A_Pencj traveling than other peoples is for the glory of the
salfl the hi individual char because "they have every- French."
f thing there - one of the most How Would the colonel sum
aclrl of the French as a Poo-
valuable the Sometimes cantankei.
p]e accounts for the pre-Dc- valuable pieces of real estate p
in the world." ous French leader?
~Gauile number or political Individual freedom and the _'Majestic:"
cult of the individual are a ~...
anics.
TIC noted. in all address to wav of life :aeons 'the Ft enrh,
"DeGaulle likes America, he
yesterday at the Hotel John just doesn't feel that he has
.,1M]'arsha1l, that in 1945 the ,to go ?round saying it," said
What, wouhl have happened
.
,f:1oFrance's tlulti-partied po-
litical stiucfure had DeGaulle
fnal;i~een elected president?
tan as one and
revers to them toward NATO and the ep-
both as the An rio 5;arons.", trance of Britain into the Co 'n-
said Colonel Sands. mon Market accurately
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