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...Gaulle warmly greeted West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who was beaming like a boy at his own birthday party. To the cheering thousands, De Gaulle proclaimed the importance of his visit in inimitable Gaullist language. Said he: "In the depths of my soul, I feel how significant and gripping are my presence on your soil and my contact with your country...
...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...
...deployed at each stopover to accommodate De Gaulle's 6 ft. 4 in. frame. In Hamburg alone, some 3,000 extra policemen will protect the French President. Along West Germany's borders, frontier guards have been alerted to exclude known members of France's fiercely anti-Gaullist S.A.O.* French and German officialsemphasize that the trip will be essentially ceremonial rather than political. Sniffed a German politician: "A museumlike event for two old gentlemen." It is certainly a historic one. But De Gaulle's speeches-some of which will be delivered in his halting German-will focus...
...federated but sovereign states, and stipulated that the plan could only be debated, not voted upon. All ten Communist Deputies flatly refused to attend the session. More than half of the Deputies - Socialists, Radicals, Popular Republicans, Independents - walked out en masse. Left facing empty benches, except for Gaullist Deputies, Couve de Murville complained, "We were condemned before we could be heard." Later, 293 of the 550 members of the National Assembly signed a manifesto rejecting De Gaulle's view of European organization as "old-fashioned" diplomacy...
...votes to bring a motion of censure against De Gaulle's government, but they hesitated to embarrass De Gaulle on the eve of what may be the ultimate Algerian showdown. They also dreaded pushing him into ordering a popular referendum on the European issue when-as in all Gaullist referendums-the vote would be less on the question at issue than on De Gaulle's popularity...