Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...developing. "I say 'may' because only time can tell whether we shall have learned to talk somewhat less at cross purposes than in the past, and with better understanding of opposing points of view." Khrushchev, said Herter, had said there was a need for "a common language despite the ideological conflict to which he staunchly adheres. Many will find this hard to believe after the years of baffling doubletalk. Yet I believe that on certain fundamentals we can find a common language because we have a common interest. That interest lies simply in the basic will to survive...
...Thus, the one area in which a common language has best chance to grow is that of ground rules for the great competition which dominates our time-some rules of the game-to keep it within bounds set by the conditions of co-survival...
Will such a change weaken the European community? Duroselle thinks not. "De Gaulle favors the common market," he says, "and within seven years--the length of his term--the market will be revitalized. Then the necessity of a common currency will appear, and it is plain that you can't have a common currency without having a common policy in many areas. The trend towards integration now seems to be irresistible...
...DIGGIN' AT DUNSTER. Live jazz from the Dunster Junior Common Room...
Within this entity, the leadership--economic and, in time, political--can fall only to France or Germany. Here enters the German problem for France. The French can manage Western Germany, for the common fear of Germany would cast the smaller powers on France's side in a contest for primacy. And, through a European block, Germany would have a large market for her goods and the ability to make her weight felt in the world. Thus, a marriage de convenance could be effected between Paris and Bonn...