Word: alphands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herve Alphand, the French Ambassador to the United States, Inst night urged that NATO and the Atlantic alliance be "radically changed...
Speaking to an audience of 450 at the Harvard Law School Forum, Alphand said that "the form given to this alliance fifteen years ago" is no longer adequate because "Europe aspires to assume broader responsibilities for her own defense...
France wants an independent nuclear arsenal, Alphand said, "to deter a potential enemy, in case he decides to blackmail us in exceptional cases when our interests and your should not be exactly the same." He suggested that the French nuclear venture "cannot but interfere with the strategy of our adversaries, and therefore make it more complicated for them...
Lady Bird's accession to the White House did precipitate some clatter of dismay, however. "I suppose," cooed Nicole Alphand, wife of the French Ambassador to the U.S., "that now we will all have to learn to do zee bar-bee-cue." That has not yet become a problem, but Lady Bird has done her bit for zee folk music. Already a guitar-whacking bunch of folk singers called the New Christy Minstrels have entertained at a state dinner for Italy's President Segni, and Lady Bird recently capped a banquet for United Nations Secretary-General U Thant...
...Gaulle was a model of cordial cooperation. He did not quibble at the fact that Ball was of less than Cabinet rank, nor did he demand to know in advance precisely what Ball wanted to talk about. Then word came from Paris that longtime Ambassador to the U.S. Herve Alphand would be replaced in the coming months. Alphand and his elegant wife Nicole had been close to the Kennedys, but showed little interest in L.B.J. before his accession to power ("I suppose we will have to learn zee bar-bee-cue," sniffed Nicole when Johnson became President...