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There lives today near Paris an ascetic, unobtrusive Frenchman who may ultimately succeed where others, from Charlemagne to Napoleon, ultimately failed. He commands no armies or popular following, but his work is worth uncounted divisions to the West. He has neither title nor portfolio, but he has privileged access to every chancellery of Western Europe. He has no formal higher education, but the world's most brilliant economists regard him as their peer. He has never joined a political party, but parliamentarians across Europe flock to his summons. His name is Jean Monnet, and he is the practical apostle...
...real German cannot abide a Frenchman...
Around four large wooden desks in a dirty greystone building in West Berlin, an American, a Briton, a Frenchman and a Russian work together 24 hours a day, almost as if the cold war did not exist. This is Berlin's Air Safety Center, where the West advises East of its flights up the three air corridors over Communist territory from West Germany. The system is supposed to avoid accidents; in fact, it neatly ties the Soviets to tacit recognition of the West's rights to fly the disputed airlanes. Many Western officers think Russia will...
...recognized as the West's favorite dictator, may simply have rejuggled some of his political prisoners into criminal classifications. Hardly had Herreros sat down than word came from Barcelona of two trials for "military rebellion," Franco's euphemism for anti-Franco activity. An Israeli, a Frenchman and 13 Spaniards were given sentences of one to twelve years in jail...
...France, the West's tough, new line is referred to pointedly as "the American policy." Though De Gaulle's sweeping powers have virtually reduced the French people to kibitzers, a nuclear war over Berlin is unthinkable to the pragmatic Frenchman sipping vermouth in his sidewalk cafe. With the French army tied up in Algeria, the thought of even a limited-war tactic such as driving an armored column through to a blockaded Berlin frightens the French, who are only 150 miles from Russian armies in East Germany. "To deliberately create such an international crisis in the thermonuclear...