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Next to his liver, the Frenchman's chief preoccupation is his language. One of the main reasons why Charles de Gaulle blocked British membership in the Common Market for nearly a decade was his fear that French would lose its place as the premier language on the Continent.
While the U.S. and China are engaged in a sudden flurry of diplomatic initiatives, Europe is preoccupied with its own negotiations. Though the European talks lack the drama of Peking's gestures, their outcome will have a profound effect on the future shape of the Continent. One of the...
Economic Adviser McCracken has begun to talk privately of organizing a North American common market in energy. That fascinating idea frightens many Canadian politicians, who fear a Yankee grab for their nation's resources. The problem is at least partly one of semantics; the same politicians proclaim eagerness for...
What worries Reichers, and most other top international bankers, is that dollars have been pouring into foreign countries at an extraordinary rate. Principally because banks repaid the sum of money that they had borrowed abroad, the U.S. balance of payments deficit hit $10.7 billion in 1970, and in this year...
WEST EUROPE. Brezhnev reiterated the Soviet desire for a relaxation of tensions on the Continent-on Moscow's terms. He praised the cordial state of Franco-Soviet relations. But he warned that West Germany's failure so far to ratify the Bonn-Moscow renunciation-of-force treaty "would...