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...Heart. There seemed to be a danger that Kennedy's straight talk might even further acerbate Franco-American relations. But at a time when West Germany might be drawn to De Gaulle's point of view, that risk was worth taking. The immediate French reaction was a shrug, with a hint of a sniff. France's Minister of Information Alain Peyrefitte said that his government does not really distrust Kennedy's resolution to defend Europe. But, he said, France does have a right to question Kennedy's ability to impose his policies on his presidential...
...TIME, May 17). In a rare joke with his audience, Solal risked a Franco-American pun last year by composing a parody of his own music and calling it Mystère Solal...
Gavin, now president of Arthur D. Little, Inc., economic consultants, emphasized three "illusions," held in the State Department two years ago, that are showing up now in strained Franco-American relations. Some policy-makers then believed that President de Gaulle "wouldn't last long," that his nuclear policy would prove unpopular within France, and that "he wouldn't get rid of Algeria...
...Mona Lisa preview dinner later in the week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The way U.N. officials got it, the invites were already out when Alphand balked at discovering that U.N. Secretary-General U Thant was among the honored guests. It was, sniffed Alphand, a strictly Franco-American affair. Harassed Met officials got the Alphands to agree to two head tables, with Alphand and Adlai Stevenson at the head head table, and Mme. Alphand at another one with U Thant. The Secretary-General coldly refused to attend, along with a half dozen other U.N. officials, including Ralph...
...differences that beset Franco-American relations, nothing angers Charles de Gaulle more than the U.S.'s refusal to help him build his atom bomb. Time after time, French officials have shown up in Washington with shopping lists for nuclear equipment and other gadgetry needed by De Gaulle's proposed force de frappe (striking force), only to be turned away. Last week, President Kennedy publicly, and emphatically, gave the French another...