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...already alarmed at the prospect of increased spending, taxes and inflation that a leftist government might bring. Moreover, many previously undecided voters, and moderate Socialists as well, were astonished at the news of Mitterrand's giveaway of ministries to the Communists. MITTERRAND YIELDS TO MARCHAIS'S DIKTAT, headlined the conservative daily Le Figaro. Premier Barre called the leftist accord a "masquerade," a "deception" and a "masterpiece of evasion...
Rabin's stern Diktat was not unprecedented; former Minister Eban was prohibited from publishing his diplomatic memoirs of the Six-Day War. Large portions of Golan's 300-page review of the Yom Kippur War and its diplomatic aftermath consisted of official documents tied together with transitional passages. As diplomatic correspondent of the fiercely independent Hebrew-language daily Ha'aretz (circ. 55,000), Golan obviously had access to top-level sources, possibly within Israel's notoriously leaky Cabinet. Along with trading Kissinger stories last week, Israelis debated the identity of their own Deep Throat...
...Diktat Diplomacy. To many Latin Americans, the slap at Venezuela and Ecuador smacked of old-style U.S. diplomacy by diktat-no consultation, no negotiation. Twenty of the 24 members of the Organization of American States blasted the trade act as "discriminatory and coercive." Last week Argentine Foreign Minister Alberto Vignes announced that his country was postponing "indefinitely" the March meeting of OAS foreign ministers. Vignes was partly motivated by a reluctance to host a conference whose outcome-on the question of regularizing relations between the hemisphere and Fidel Castro's Cuba-was likely to fail. But the trade...
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...