Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...official French government plane taxied to a stop under the glowering skies at Bonn's shabby Wahn Airport, a red carpet was rolled out to the landing stairs. From the plane stepped the towering figure of Charles de Gaulle, who, as the first French chief of state to visit Germany officially since 1870, had come on a historic mission: to cement a lasting bond of friendship and unity between two ancient foes. "The mountain," said one spectator, "has come to Mohammed...
...Time for Trouble. In their private talks, Adenauer and De Gaulle will undoubtedly discuss Britain's bid for membership in Europe's Common Market, a touchy issue that last week intensified the growing strain between Bonn and London (see below). Other likely topics: Berlin and the possibility of Franco-German military cooperation outside the framework of NATO. However, many diplomats in both countries breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that De Gaulle and der Alte will have only four hours together for formal talks. Hopefully, officials believe that the two leaders will be too busy patching...
...West Germany's Chancellor based his misgivings on the purposefully vague statements in the House of Commons by which Macmillan has sought to soft-pedal this potentially explosive issue. When cables reporting Adenauer's TV comments came clattering into London from the British embassy in Bonn late one night, Macmillan was sufficiently irked to prod the Foreign Office into action forthwith. At i a.m., when it takes a major crisis to awaken Whitehall, the government released excerpts from a letter written by the Prime Minister to Adenauer emphasizing Britain's "wish to join wholeheartedly" in Europe...
...Back in Bonn, Adenauer's views were publicly disavowed by his Foreign Minister, Gerhard Schroder, who declared in a magazine interview that Europe had everything to gain from political and economic partnership with Britain. Though Schroder later explained that he had expressed this view without reference to Adenauer's prerecorded TV interview, he effectively strengthened his position as a successor to the Chancellor with the majority of West Germany's Protestant voters, who are generally more eager to bring Britain into Europe than to strengthen Germany's ties with France...
Rockefeller is one of that little group of men who sit at the financial hub of the world's wealthiest nation and by their nods give the stop or go sign to enterprises from Bonn to Bangkok. They wield vast powers?and yet must correctly size up situations around the world and reckon on economic and social changes bigger than their own power to control. They cannot sit still or their strength diminishes; but when they move, they must be nimble as well as sure...