Word: beene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The summit conference will not take place this winter, as Eisenhower and Macmillan apparently desired. It will instead take place during the spring, as General de Gaulle desired, with the exact time and place at de Gaulle's pleasure. Nikita Khrushchev, who will also attend, has not been consulted about...
Under the Fifth Republic, French foreign policy--except in the colonial field--has been more concerned with form than with content. Charlemagne, having decided that loose talk of France as a second-rate power had gone far enough, served notice that henceforth France would be heard from in Western councils...
Most of the grandeur of the Fifth Republic's first year has been symbolic. De Gaulle has practically reinstituted the rites of a medieval court in a modern setting. There have been periodic shows of pomp: the Fourteenth of July was "the biggest ever," with fireworks, parades, and dancing in...
The Fourteenth of July probably demonstrated more clearly than anything how hollow grandeur really is. It might have been the biggest ever, but the consensus in the press the morning after was that is had been the biggest flop. The only thing the festivities lacked was spontaneity. On the domestic...
France's Western allies have been puzzled by these antics also and by de Gaulle's slow-down tactics on the summit conference. The French nuclear test in the Sahara is going to be embarrassing at a time when serious consideration is being given to disarmament. The moving of air...