Word: amby
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Charles de Gaulle may be stubborn, outrageous and unrealistic in his ambi tions for France, but his policies usual ly contain a degree of rationality. His opposition to British entry into Europe, however motivated it may be by anti-Anglo-Saxon prejudice, makes a certain amount of sense because British entry would surely bring problems and perhaps dangers to the Common Market. His recent diplomatic support of the Arabs against Israel, however in consistent with past French policy, makes a Machiavellian kind of sense because De Gaulle wants to increase French influence among Arab nations disillusioned with Russia and disgusted...
Whatever their frustrations or ambi tions, the governments and peoples of the rest of the Continent seemed unready to accept a narrow little Europe as the pattern for their future. The mold for some thing bigger had been formed in the Rome Treaty in 1957. and would neither lightly nor happily be broken. A struggle for the loyalty of Western Europe has now begun...