Word: continente
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Whatever their frustrations or ambi tions, the governments and peoples of the rest of the Continent seemed unready to accept a narrow little Europe as the pattern for their future. The mold for some thing bigger had been formed in the Rome Treaty in 1957. and would neither lightly nor...
Oddly, the British, who have found it hard to abandon their other ties and their ancient insularity, took great umbrage at De Gaulle's questioning of their European sincerity. Said Tory Party Chairman Iain Macleod: "We do not accept any curt dismissal from the European stage. The days when...
Western Europe last week made it abundantly clear to France's Charles de Gaulle that his arrogant scheme to stamp Europe's unity movement with his own pattern of a French-led continent is not going to work. As delegates gathered in confusion in Brussels for another effort...
Export Worries. Britain's existing economic ties to the Common Market are already too strong for even Charles de Gaulle to break. While trade with the Commonwealth slackened, British sales to the Common Market increased an impressive 17% last year. Still, British businessmen worry about how their exports would...
Thus the door was slammed on Britain, but was it finally barred and bolted? De Gaulle is too skillful a tactician ever to be trapped in an absolutely rigid and negative position. Even his acrimonious Paris discourse contained the hint that Britain might be welcomed in the Common Market in...