Word: bonnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...position was, on the whole, unassailable. All Paris really wanted was for West Germany to stick to a previously reached agreement for the reduction of agricultural prices. Because Germany's inefficient subsidized farmers want no part of this and because Chancellor Ludwig Erhard faces an election next year, Bonn was dragging its feet. A more sympathetic character than Charles de Gaulle might have understood and been patient. De Gaulle understood, all right, but he was in no mood for patience. There were renewed threats that unless he got satisfaction on the issue, he might pull out of the Market...
Against the Grain. However, De Gaulle's prognostications are often more successful than his policies. Two years ago, in hope of establishing Franco-German dominance in European affairs, De Gaulle signed his treaty of cooperation with Bonn. In practice, the entente has been mostly verbal: the Germans have refused to cooperate in joint weapons production, want no part of De Gaulle's incipient nuclear force, and have further provoked le grand Charles by enthusiastically endorsing U.S. plans for the mixed-manned NATO surface fleet, MLF, which Paris ridicules as the force de farce...
...home, De Gaulle is in trouble with his farmers as a result of Bonn's refusal to lower grain prices according to the Common Market schedule. Thus France, which would dearly like to sell the Germans its grain surplus, finally announced last month that if the problem was not settled soon, it would "cease to participate" in the Common Market-a typically Delphic threat that could mean anything from the "empty chair" technique to outright repudiation of the Rome Treaty. Last week, with a grand Gaullist flourish, the French initialed a $700 million trade agreement with Moscow, further irritating...
...Bonn, De Gaulle's unassailably correct stand on grain prices may give Ludwig Erhard just the leverage he needs to reform his nation's inefficient agriculture. For while Germany economically is less dependent than France on the Common Market, politically and psychologically it is even more deeply committed to European unity...
...GERMANY. Khrushchev scandalized many comrades by his planned trip to Bonn in January for conferences with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Coming on top of his offhand treatment of Walter Ulbricht's East Germany (the long-promised separate peace treaty has yet to be signed), this caused the suspicion that Khrushchev might want to make some sort of deal with West Germany, a country regularly denounced as neo-fascist by Moscow propaganda...