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Giving a vast assist to the U.S. balance of payments (see U.S. BUSINESS), U.S. farmers last year exported to Western Europe $1.4 billion worth of everything from soybeans to turkeys, and so far this year have matched that record pace. Helped along by European shortages of beef and pork, exports...
In Common Market circles, Charles de Gaulle's Non! is a more awesome instrument of policy than the force de frappe. Last week in Brussels, he used it again, precipitating yet another of the virtually twice-yearly crises by which France reminds the Six that some are more equal...
Unfortunately for most returnees, there is little at home to reduce those huge, Americanized bellies. Last week some 1,000 Bretons converged on Paris to demand less money for Charles de Gaulle's force de frappe and more for industrializing Brittany. Significantly, only four Gourinois turned up in the...
With lucidity and quiet understatement, the distinguished French pundit sifts the various theories of nuclear deterrence-U.S., Soviet, European-that have transformed the nature of war and diplomacy. In the past, Aron points out, war was simply the last stage of strategy, Clausewitz' "extension of politics." Now, as...
A Member of the Club. In their at tempts to describe the improved atmosphere between the U.S. and France, the American officials in Paris only succeeded in demonstrating De Gaulle's diplomatic success. U.S. sources who a week before Paris had talked tough came away taking strange comfort in...