Word: diktat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Belgium's Senate passed a unanimous resolution condemning French intransigence and demanding that talks with Britain be resumed. "A diktat" roared Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak of De Gaulle's presumption to act as all Europe's spokesman. "Our problem is the personality of General de Gaulle. We are not only against his methods but also against his reasons, which are false." If Britain is left out, declared Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns, "the idea of a united Europe will be in crisis." Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani called it a menace to NATO itself...
...West sought to make sense out of the conflicting claims of a still strong Germany, the ideals of Versailles, and its own interests and fears. Like most historians of the last fifteen years, Taylor is inclined to be critical of Versailles. It was, of course, not quite the Diktat German politicians (and many others) considered it. But it was a bad job: designed to settle a War which had been fought to make explicit the changes in the European order since the mid-nineteenth century, its effect was to muffle those changes. The problems that produced the First World...