Word: francos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Organized by a bearded Franco-American collagist, Jean-Jacques Lebel, 28, the festival drew the violent participation of some 60 Montparnasse artists and their friends. Among the 2,000 onlookers were many of the old surrealists, Dadaists and other proponents of artistic anarchy, (as well as Painter Marcel Duchamp and Philosopher Jean Wahl, who introduced Heidegger to Sartre). To them, the whole show must have seemed a remembrance of flings past...
...agree. Franco "may never be considered respectable enough in the Western community" [April 23]-of Tito, Brandt, Nenni, Spaak, Attlee, Mendes-France...
Mood of Angst. This sort of glass touching has all but shattered for West Germany the high hopes with which it concluded the Franco-German Treaty of Friendship back in 1963. From Common Market cooperation to German hopes for some sort of Atlantic nuclear sharing, De Gaulle has proved increasingly obdurate in insisting on his vision of an independent France running Europe, with West Germany at best a junior partner. As a result, the Germans have fallen into a new mood of Angst about their own role in Europe...
...themselves barred from Spain indefinitely. For minor tourist crimes, Spanish courts usually recommend deportation. There are no juries, and judges can be tough on foreigners accused of illegally exporting art objects, leaving the scene of an accident, or failing to pay a hotel bill, to say nothing of criticizing Franco. Accused tourists should forget trying to skip the country. Spanish police are quite efficient. Happily, this also means that a robbed tourist may find his wallet at the nearest police station...
...headline reported) nor did he even say that they were technically correct (as the body of the story said). What he did say was that their position can be justified by a strict interpretation of the Charter, an interpretation with which he personally disagrees, but which gives the Franco-Russian position a firmer legal basis than most Americans realize. To say, that a particular political position can be justified by a strict construction of some fundamental law is quite a different thing from saying that it is even "technically correct." In short, Dr. Graham was agreeing with the World Court...