Word: asserting
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Also no help to NATO morale is the attitude of France's Charles de Gaulle who now openly, almost contemptuously, rejects integrated European defense, the very cornerstone of the NATO concept. Upset by this, the smaller countries found a way to assert themselves when De Gaulle proposed that a permanent political consultative body be established within the new six-nation Common Market structure. Fearing this would mean domination by France, Belgium and The Netherlands bluntly vetoed the scheme. "We do not want our country run from the Quai d'Orsay," said one Dutch official...
Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, primate of the Lyon diocese, who was responsible for bringing the dying Herriot back into the church, issued a statement rejecting with indignation "the gratuitous and odious allegations . . . which dare to assert that I had taken advantage of the weakness of a diminished man." Herriot not only answered his questions in a firm voice, said the cardinal, but twice expressed "his desire for a religious funeral...
...wrongness of this issue." After the conference, when prodded by his aides, Herter hastily issued a statement that his press conference remarks "related only to the legalities of the rival claims." But, whatever the legalities, he said, the Chinese Reds were "wholly in the wrong" in using force to assert their claims...
...question of dropping the word "daily" from the News' masthead continues to divide the editors, many of whom assert that it is "dishonest" and "hardly Yale" to claim an undeserved title. Others, however, insist that "It looks good on the page--and it never matters what we say, anyway...
...week, as if to drive Nikita's point home, Moscow published the fattest statistical yearbook in Soviet history, a 958-page tome filled with figures carefully chosen to indicate that Russia is far closer to outstripping the West than many an Uzbek peasant might think. For one thing, assert Russia's statisticians, Russia is producing more people than the U.S. Russia's birth rate, according to the yearbook, was 25.3 per thousand in 1958 v. a mere 24.3 per thousand for the U.S., and only 7.2 Russians per thousand died last year while the U.S. mortality rate...