Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wahn Airport, a red carpet was rolled out to the landing stairs. From the plane stepped the towering figure of Charles de Gaulle, who, as the first French chief of state to visit Germany officially since 1870, had come on a historic mission: to cement a lasting bond of friendship and unity between two ancient foes. "The mountain," said one spectator, "has come to Mohammed...
...union, Pourquoi? Speaking without notes, mostly in grammatically flawless, if unmistakably Gaullist German. De Gaulle returned repeatedly to the thematic words: "Deutsch-Franzosische Freund-schaft" (Franco-German friendship). The most explicit and concentrated statement of De Gaulle's plans for Europe was delivered at a state banquet at the Augustusburg Castle in Briihl-ironically, once the residence in exile of Louis XIV's Cardinal Mazarin, an early evangelist of France's longstanding policy of keeping Germany weak and divided. "Every word in the speech is worthy of exegetical study, like a Biblical text," exclaimed one of Adenauer...
...toughest letter of all. De Gaulle must have concentrated on it and systematically practiced it until he got it. It's that power of will that's so characteristic. And you can be sure that he will keep pressing his idea of Franco-German friendship the same...
...office many more years; a sense of urgency underlay even their most florid public exchanges. This awareness of historic work to be done pervaded the entire visit and, more important, was grasped by West Germany's people. Charles de Gaulle has long paid tribute to Franco-German friendship; he even personifies it. Last week he helped to make it a reality that will outlive Charles de Gaulle...
...country of eight small districts.) Except through the chruch there is very little interchange between Negroes who live in different districts. The county's two factories, which centralize work, are beginning to change this pattern, but both are too recently arrived to have cut deeply into traditional habits of friendship. Besides, the work they require is too grueling to permit much social life after hours. Any kind of campaign outside the church is, as a consequence, extremely hard to organize...