Word: gauls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...close, new relationship with an old enemy, Germany. Himself a veteran of two wars against les Bodies, and the son of a soldier who was wounded in the war with Prussia, Charles de Gaulle went far beyond the dictates of conventional statesmanship to heal the ancient feud between Gaul and Teuton. On his state visit to West Germany, he went out of his way to wring Germans' hands and bid them Guten Tag. Few Germans who heard him could fail to be moved when De Gaulle cried: "Das deutsche Volk ist ein grosses Volk." A popular Christmas gift...
...seem to melt in air'' are contemporary because they express the golden flowering of two comparable cultures (Western and Middle Eastern). In Western culture (which Spengler regards as entirely separate from Greco-Roman), Cecil John Rhodes's campaign to exploit Africa is made equivalent to Caesar's foray into Gaul. Both mark the start of expansionist drives that Spengter sees as the beginning of the culture's final decline...
...Recently, the government stopped the press run, after 7,000 copies had been printed, of a scathing novel, The Divine Caesar, by Jacek Bochenski, which bitterly attacked the Communist order under the guise of exposing ancient Roman tyranny. Muses the novelist's dictator: "Let's face it. Gaul has not been subjugated. The people want political reform. All the people want freedom and hate slavery." In case anybody missed the point, Author Bochenski described Caesar as a "bald playboy"-a clear allusion to the pate and personality of Premier Cyrankiewicz...
...honor. But the words that provoked riot and rampage were not, as one might expect, Algerian battle cries. They were "itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini," sung by Johnny Hallyday, France's first and only authentic rock 'n' roller, the Elvis Presley of Thither Gaul...
Like Caesar's Gaul, the platform is divided into three principal parts: Defense & Foreign Policy. The essential goal of foreign policy, says the platform is "an enduring peace in which the universal values of human dignity, truth and justice under law are finally secured for all men everywhere on earth" - a more elaborate statement of President Eisenhower's "peace with justice." As aids to the cause of peace, the platform proposes more foreign economic aid, expanded world trade (with a cryptic promise of "international agreements to assure . . . fair labor standards to protect our own workers"), liberalized immigration policies...