Le Monde (10 December 1974) gives figures of 70.000 in June 1971, 130.000 in December 1974.
2.
As witnessed in the results of the Legislative elections of March 1973, the Presidential elections of May 1974 and the bye-elections of September-October 1974.
3.
Notably Jean Lecanuet on French radio (Europe No. 1), on 9 January 1975.
4.
In particular the speeches of J.-P. Chevènement, G. Martinet and G. Sarre.
5.
See general report of Robert Pontillon to the Extraordinarv Congress of the Socialist Party held at Bagnolet, 15-16 December 1973.
6.
Ibid., p. 12.
7.
Changer la Vie-Programme de Gouvernement du Parti Socialiste et Programme Commun de la Gauche (Paris, 1972), 187.
8.
Le poing et la rose, no. 22. Tirage complémentaire.
9.
See, for example, the statement of 17 July 1974 published by the Buieau Executif of the Party at the time of the Cyprus crisis of July 1974. The Party criticises the American involvement in Cyprus. The British Labour Party press release on Cyprus, published at the same time. 16 July 1974, makes no such mention.
10.
Le poing et la rose, no 22, Tirage complémentaire.
11.
Le nouvel observateur, 13 April 1974.
12.
Mitterrand—l'Homme, les Idées (Paris , 1974). 111.
13.
See Mitterrand's statement concerning the French Socialist Party's attitude towards the United States as reported in the International Herald Tribune, 13 March 1974.
14.
Le Nouvel observateur, 13 April 1974.
15.
Changer la Vie, 184-93 and 331-4.
16.
ibid., 193.
17.
Le poing et la rose, no. 22. Tirage complémentaire.
18.
Ibid.
19.
Reported in The Times, 17 December 1973.
20.
Le poing et la rose, Supplément au no. 23.12.73. p. 10.
21.
Ibid.
22.
Changer la Vie, 334.
23.
Le Monde, 29 August 1974.
24.
Le Monde, 18 October 1974.
25.
Le Monde, 4 September 1974.
26.
L'Express, 1-7 January 1973.
27.
The Times, 13 December 1973.
28.
Le Monde, 23-24 September 1973.
29.
This section only gives the broad outlines of the Party's attitudes to agriculture. Its proposals concerning the markets for specific products can be found in Changer la Vie, 79-91. 302. 333.
30.
Le poing et la rose, Tirage complémentaire.
31.
See, in particular, Mitterrand's speech calling for a major reform of the CAP, reported in Le Monde, 26 September 1974.
32.
Changer la Vie, 189.
33.
Labour Party Press Release, 13 December 1973.
34.
Le poing et la rose, Supplément au no. 23.12.73.
35.
Ibid., 11.
36.
Ibid.
37.
Le poing et la rose, no. 22, Tirage complémentaire.
38.
The relationship between the SPD and the French Socialist Party has been strained not only for ideological reasons. The French Party has severely criticised the SPD for its apparent willingness to form links with the Gaullists and for having sent representatives to Gaullist Conferences (see Le Monde, 6-7 February 1972).
39.
Le poing et la rose, no. 22. Tirage complémentaire.
40.
Ibid., 11.
41.
Le poing et la rose, Supplément au no. 23.12.73 for the distribution of portfolios in the Bureau Exécutif up to the end of 1974.
42.
Changer la Vie, 331.
43.
L'Express, 1-7 January 1973.
44.
Ibid.
45.
Georges Marchais , La politique du parti communiste français (Paris, 1974), 69-76.
46.
Ibid., 74.
47.
Combat Socialiste, May 1974, 12.
48.
Georges Marchais , op. cit, 72-73.
49.
L'Express, 1-7 January 1973.
50.
Le poing et la rose, no. 22, Tirage complémentaire.
51.
Le poing et la rose, Supplément au no. 23.12.73, p. 10.
52.
See L'Express, 1-7 January 1973, and Le Monde—Dossiers et Documents: L'Election présidentielle de Mai 1974 (Paris, May 1974), 85.
53.
Georges Marchais , op. cit, 73-74.
54.
F. Goguel and A. Grosser, La politique en France (4th edn, Paris, 1970), 133.
55.
F. Borella, Les partis politiques dans la France d'aujourd'hui ( Paris , 1973), 165-6.
