Word: european
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALGIERS--Ten French soldiers were killed Saturday night when Algerian Nationalist rebels ambushed a convoy escorting workmen near Port Tigzirt, east of Algiers. Three native workmen and one European also were killed in the ambush. Army sources said the convoy was moving through a difficult mountain terrain largely controlled by the Nationalists...
...just one more of those international tête-à-têtes at which complete agreement is afterwards proclaimed. But Adenauer was disturbed. In recent weeks, De Gaulle has openly proclaimed his intention of establishing France as an "atomic third force" and explicitly rejected the concept of integrated European defense that is the foundation of NATO strategic planning. When Adenauer landed at Orly Airport last week, the question uppermost in his mind was whether he could maintain his alliance with Gaullist France without undercutting his longstanding and deeper dedication to NATO...
...Gaulle's France not only got Spain invited into the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, but helped it get OEEC aid. Last September De Gaulle himself told Spain's Foreign Minister Fernando Maria Castiella y Maiz that "Franco and the Spanish people have rendered great services to the world-the new Spanish stability marks a step toward complete Western European integration." Finally in October, just 300 years after Spain's Chief Minister Luis de Haro and Cardinal Mazarin of France met on a tiny neutral island in the little Bidassoa River to sign the Peace...
...successors have pounded relentlessly against import quotas, for the convertibility of sterling, for lower tariffs and more foreign aid. In 1956 the Economist rebuked Sir Anthony Eden, then Prime Minister, for his rash invasion of the Suez; it has challenged Britain's decision to stay out of the European Common Market, and strongly questioned the wisdom of diplomacy by summit conference...
Galbraith praised the results of the American aid policy in Europe, but also blamed that policy indirectly for the government's current dollar loss. So much attention has been devoted to European economics, he explained, that the American financial situation has been somewhat neglected...