16 FEBRUARY 1974, page 13

France

Winter of discontent Nicholas Richardson "Gut reaction Gaullism is dead — only th„ e , Gaullists don't know it. Some of them are st"' clinging to the boat while the others are......

Election Corridors

My friend Sir Simon d'Audley attended me the other day where I was laid low in the country suffering from a highly infectious attack of election fever. So palsied was my......