Word: frenchness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West Germans feel that the only realistic guarantee for their security lies in a unified Western Europe. At week's end, German officials welcomed that old wrecker of European unity, Charles de Gaulle, to Bonn on his annual visit with somewhat mixed feelings. On the eve of the French President's arrival, Brandt issued a public statement that had an unmistakable meaning for the French. "I would be sorry for every step that we must take without France," said Brandt. "But no one could be satisfied if we stood still or moved in circles...
...Gaulle's hosts were stung by his failure to join at once with the other major Western allies in warning the Soviet Union after the invasion of Czechoslovakia that any aggression against the Federal Republic would be met by force. They were further disappointed that the French had just used their veto at Brussels to reject a preferential-tariff proposal that would have opened the way for Britain's eventual inclusion in the Common Market. As a result, the West Germans were now thinking about organizing a Common Market that would include Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia but omit...
...already granted resident visas to almost 2,000 persons-including Marcella Grossova, 24, runner-up in Czechoslovakia's annual national beauty contest, who was snapped up by a Toronto modeling agency. Canada budgeted $2,000,000 to settle the refugees and teach them either English or French. Some, like Musician Eduard Ambros, 25, can skip the linguistics. "I feel very good to be in Canada," he told airport well-wishers in excellent English. "I hear you have a right free country...
...nuclear-powered missile submarines. "The Royal Navy," says Jane's, "has taken a cruel knock. It is hardly adequate for peacetime defense, and insufficient for war." Perhaps the cruelest knock of all was Jane's judgment that by the 1970s, if present plans are carried through, the French navy will be stronger than Britain's by a margin of two aircraft carriers and one nuclear sub. So much for the navy that William Blackstone, back in 1765, was able to call "England's greatest defense and ornament; its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark...
...businessmen. But in some respects, Caetano presents a sharp contrast to Salazar. He is married and has four grown children; the former Premier is a withdrawn, painfully austere bachelor. Salazar almost never journeyed beyond Portugal's borders and has equally circumscribed intellectual horizons; Caetano has traveled widely, speaks French, reads English and has a continuing interest in cultural and intellectual developments...