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Adenauer signed the agreement to retire last year, when his Christian Democratic Union lost its parliamentary majority and the Free Democrats demanded the promise in exchange for their support. But Adenauer soon was telling friends that nothing he had signed could bind him to quit next year. Last week, sooner than Adenauer had intended to announce the news, a longtime associate let it be known that the Chancellor is seriously considering running for the ceremonial office of President in 1964 to guarantee continuity of policy-and also to buy himself another year as Chancellor. Nobody, after all. would insist that...
Monroe was a fervent believer in national unity. Shortly after his inauguration he set off on a national tour - a strenuous undertaking in those days - using his enormous personal popularity to help bind the nation
...Britain's bid for membership in the European Common Market. One after another, Britain's Commonwealth partners declared that, by joining Europe, Britain will gravely strain their economic ties to the mother country and may finally sunder the enduring links of sentiment and mutual self-interest that bind together one-quarter of the world's people...
...Tengku (prince), almost alone, can bind together all the diverse elements in the nation...
This month, some 400 years since Britain was driven from her last French possession, the island nation approaches the climax of a historic effort to vault the Channel and bind her fortunes indissolubly to those of the new, united, booming Western Europe. This decision will deeply affect Britain's relations with 724 million Commonwealth citizens. Britons who want to remember the sails of Drake and Raleigh, and the balance sheets that once followed the flag around the world, are being asked to turn their backs on what little remains of the Empire and to abandon (or so many believe...