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Word: frenched (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French have provoked your writer (November 4), Mr. Rothenberg. French foreign policy, he tells us, lacks content and compounds injured vanity with a facade of anachronistic grandeur. Asserting that the French are a second-rate power, he wishes them to play the part, with help, if necessary, from the State Department. The current political evolution of Europe is of such historic import that I am writing you an alternative analysis of French foreign policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH DEFENSE | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

Within this entity, the leadership--economic and, in time, political--can fall only to France or Germany. Here enters the German problem for France. The French can manage Western Germany, for the common fear of Germany would cast the smaller powers on France's side in a contest for primacy. And, through a European block, Germany would have a large market for her goods and the ability to make her weight felt in the world. Thus, a marriage de convenance could be effected between Paris and Bonn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH DEFENSE | 11/25/1959 | See Source »

After a peaceful reassurance that he "favored the de Gaulle regime," French historian and political scientist Jean-Baptiste Duroselle quickly shifted into a frank and at times critical discussion of the present French government in a brief speech before the Eisenhower club last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expert Talks On De Gaulle | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

...also criticized certain aspects of what he called "Charles de Gaulle's policy of grandeur," in which the French President is attempting to make his country a world power. He attributed the recent atomic bomb tests in that country to this effort, but pointed out that France had so little money compared to the United States or Russia that even the idea of matching them on a nuclear scale was "absurd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expert Talks On De Gaulle | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

Although he disliked de Gaulle's pretention, Duroselle praised the strong moves he has made toward improving the French economic situation, and noted that the combined result of his extensive program has been to turn a serious national deficit into a $2 billion surplus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expert Talks On De Gaulle | 11/24/1959 | See Source »

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