Word: french
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle stepped forward and said in English, "Hello, how are you?" Said De Gaulle later in a formal greeting: "You are a man, a man of intelligence, a man of heart, a man of honor." The President termed De Gaulle: "My old friend and colleague . . . the symbol of French courage, defiance and dedication...
...drums rolled and taps broke the evening quiet. Half an hour later, at a surging greeting at the Hotel-de-Ville in the name of the people of Paris, the President responded: "When the heart is full, the tongue is very likely to stumble. I have one small French phrase that, I think, expresses my feelings-Je vous aime tons...
...NATO. Between and after pageants, the President held two solid talks with De Gaulle, one for 70 minutes alone with interpreters, one for almost an hour with Secretary of State Christian Herter and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. On France's labyrinthine problem in Algeria, a problem that De Gaulle kept coming back to, the President was pleased and impressed by De Gaulle's new initiative there toward settlement (see FOREIGN NEWS). On NATO, the President restrained De Gaulle's widely bruited hopes for a sort of NATO three-power directorate by promising principally...
...final afternoon of his mission to France, the President drove out of town, dropped in at his old NATO command at Rocquencourt, headed on through the green lanes of prospering France to stay overnight with De Gaulle at the country mansion of French Presidents, the centuries-old Chateau de Rambouillet. There Ike confided to De Gaulle the major conclusion of his mission to date. Said the President emphatically: he has seen a dramatic change for the better in France since De Gaulle has taken over -"a sense of purpose.'' And about De Gaulle, the President confided...
Daughter of France, by V. Sackville-West. Louis XIV's scow-shaped spinster cousin, Anne Marie, who for years drifted sluggishly through the roiled waters of the French court, is portrayed by a witty biographer...