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...concern. Shrugged De Gaulle's official spokesman: It was never his government's intention "to remove the U.S. from a solution of the German problem." What was more, the French gently papered over their differences with the U.S. on policy in Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic. Fortnight ago, Paris was hinting it intended to recognize the Dominican rebels; last week France announced without a trace of embarrassment that it never recognized "governments," only "states...
...Will Defend . . ." When confronted last fortnight by mounting evidence that Castro Communists had taken control of the revolt in the Dominican Republic, President Johnson had to act fast: if he had waited for the OAS to debate the whole thing, the Dominican Republic today would almost certainly be a Red-ruled island. Later, in explaining his actions, he enunciated what some have since called "the Johnson Doctrine." It is hardly that, being at most a corollary to the tried and true Monroe Doctrine. Johnson's policy is aimed, with stark simplicity, at barring "the establishment of another Communist government...
...assassins of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Honored with a general's commission, he had been living quietly in the background. Now he had come as the anti-Communist head of a new five-man loyalist junta, replacing the three soldiers installed by Brigadier General Wessin y Wessin a fortnight ago, hoping to pacify his small Caribbean country torn by one of the bloodiest civil wars in recent Latin American history...
...Gaulle has even managed to estrange his most ardent followers in West Germany, including such a strong German "Gaullist" as Bavarian Boss Franz Josef Strauss. Fortnight ago, De Gaulle with great fanfare entertained Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At the end of the visit, Gromyko professed to be delighted to discover that the French accepted the existence of two Germanys. Though the French mumbled a denial later, the Germans were unconvinced-and an angry Strauss expostulated that "he who today renounces Breslau and Stettin will renounce Leipzig and Magdeburg tomorrow, and quite certainly Berlin the day after tomorrow...
Mende strongly backs a more active German role in the struggle for reunification. As Acting Chancellor while Chancellor Erhard was on vacation fortnight ago, he invited Soviet Ambassador Andrei Smirnov to dinner and volunteered to send a group of Free Democrats to Moscow to discuss the subject (Smirnov turned him down...