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Jean-Baptiste Duroselle's analysis of French foreign policy since 1945 is in many ways the most interesting chapter in the book because of its excellence and its timely importance. Duroselle sees the ideal of creating a new Western Europe as the outcome of French efforts to adapt after it was found that a return to normalcy was no longer possible. Duroselle defends de Gaulle's notion of grandeur, for he believes that "a nation needs a certain pride, however realistic she may be. The French adapt themselves out of realism but they do not admit that this adaption means...
...externally-induced traumas" and the psychological state of the French people themselves. Outside "shocks' such as the depression, the outbreak of war and the defeat of 1940, the occupation and liberation, and finally, France's ambiguous position in the international community since 1944 all helped force the French to adapt to new realities...
Skybolt was. indeed, dead. Last week the Pentagon formally canceled production contracts for the 1,000-mile missile, which Great Britain had planned to adapt to its Vulcan II bombers, and the U.S. Air Force had counted on to prolong the life of its B-52s. Said Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric: "The test did not conclusively demonstrate the capacity of the missile to achieve the target accuracy for which the Skybolt system was designed...
...point that Christianity reached in 1962 is already assured of a firm place in history, that "mistress of life" to which Pope John occasionally refers. By launching a reform whose goal is to make the Catholic Church sine macula et ruga (without spot or wrinkle), John set out to adapt his church's whole life and stance to the revolutionary changes in science, economics, morals and politics that have swept the modern world: to make it, in short, more Catholic and less Roman. Stretching out the hand of friendship to non-Catholics?he calls them "separated brethren"?he demonstrated...
...ahead with Skybolt-at its own expense. But this would require an increase of about 30% in Britain's income tax-a prospect hardly palatable to any government, much less Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's hard-pressed Tories. The U.S. will also offer to help Britain adapt its nuclear submarines to carry Polaris missiles; this would be better, but still not enough to satisfy the British. And Macmillan will certainly express that dissatisfaction in his Nassau meeting with Kennedy this week...