Word: frenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Germany is reunited, each side will insist on neutrality and nonalignment with any block, including a new Western block under the French. Further, a reunited Germany would be too strong for France, who, along with other nations, would not accept German domination...
Without publicly admitting his plan, de Gaulle is thus led to oppose reunification of Germany--a stand unpopular with German public opinion, but necessary to his design. At present, time is working for the French. Their industry is expanding rapidly; their birth rate is the highest in Europe; and the end of the Algerian war will strengthen their power on the Continent...
...French insistence on the atom bomb is, of course, based partly on considerations of prestige and of grandeur, but perhaps we can discern more mundane military reasoning involved. Once the French have put their name on the label, I surmise that de Gaulle will quietly "Europeanize" the bomb project, and bring in German technicians. The object of these efforts would be to increase the Continent's nuclear power to the point where it could annihilate the U.S.S.R. Then the block would have won its freedom both from fear of Russia, and from dependence on the United States for protection...
What I have proposed is, I recognize, a hypothesis, but I advance it as a more plausible explanation of French actions than the moral shortcomings Mr. Rothenberg denounces. Lino Zambrana, Teaching Felow In Social Relations...
...read us all of Love's Labour's Lost today.") A Yalie, who had somehow heard of Gene's plan sent him a Care package with a letter of encouragement. Gradually, Gene began to vary his diet, and at the end of a week, was familiar with Chinese, Armenian, French, and Greek food. He read The Autobiography of Alice B. Tolkas, U.S.A., all of Marlowe's plays, Jane Eyre, To the Lighthouse, and a book by Erich Fromm. He was vastly impressed by Gertrude Stein's fear, at the age of fifteen, that soon she would have no more books...