Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle, whose ambitions are more French than European, had made sure that the Common Market nations would present a united front in future negotiations with Britain. And by strengthening the bonds between France and Germany, he had brought France appreciably closer to equality with Britain and the U.S. in NATO councils. For while France alone might not be able to speak with the voice of a major power, France backed up by West Germany could scarcely be ignored...
Three weeks ago France, after a year of fruitless negotiation, declared that "it is not possible to create the Free Trade Area as desired by the British." Dismayed and outraged, British spokesmen accused France's protection-loving industrialists of trying to turn the Common Market into an exclusive high-tariff club. Such a step, warned the British, would split Europe into two hostile economic camps. British fears are shared by many, including West Germany's free-enterprising Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...
Closer to Equality. At Bad Kreuznach, De Gaulle skillfully countered France's critics. In a show of moderation, he agreed that the 10% tariff cut and the minimum 20% increase in import quotas which the Common Market six will accord one another's goods beginning Jan. 1 should be temporarily extended to outside nations, while some kind of "multilateral association" is worked out between the six and the rest of Europe. This was not enough to satisfy Erhard. But Adenauer is desperately anxious for Germany to forge an unbreakable alliance with France...
Tito accused Peking of opposing "political coexistence" and fighting liberalization inside the Soviet bloc. Red China's new people's communes, he said, have little in common with Marxism, "but if this military trend of socialist development suits them, this is their affair. Only let them leave us alone...
FLEMISH PAINTING FROM BOSCH TO RUBENS (Skira; $25) has 112 eye-filling color reproductions, mostly good. Text contains a maximum of mere information and a minimum of thought, as is all too common with art books. The gigantic hero, overshadowing both Bosch and Rubens should of course be Bruegel, but he occupies only 22 pages out of 202, and his essential mysticism is barely hinted. But the pictures show the Bruegel, as Pliny said of Apelles, "painted many things that are really unpaintable...