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Against the Grain. However, De Gaulle's prognostications are often more successful than his policies. Two years ago, in hope of establishing Franco-German dominance in European affairs, De Gaulle signed his treaty of cooperation with Bonn. In practice, the entente has been mostly verbal: the Germans have refused to cooperate in joint weapons production, want no part of De Gaulle's incipient nuclear force, and have further provoked le grand Charles by enthusiastically endorsing U.S. plans for the mixed-manned NATO surface fleet, MLF, which Paris ridicules as the force de farce...
...home, De Gaulle is in trouble with his farmers as a result of Bonn's refusal to lower grain prices according to the Common Market schedule. Thus France, which would dearly like to sell the Germans its grain surplus, finally announced last month that if the problem was not settled soon, it would "cease to participate" in the Common Market-a typically Delphic threat that could mean anything from the "empty chair" technique to outright repudiation of the Rome Treaty. Last week, with a grand Gaullist flourish, the French initialed a $700 million trade agreement with Moscow, further irritating...
Blessings of grain-stalk and blossom
MARINA NUÑEZ DEL PRADO and SIDNEY WOLFSON - World House, 987 Madison Ave. at 77th. New works by Miss Del Prado, a Bolivian sculptress who exploits the grain of exotic woods, smooths onyx and marble into virginal shapes that often echo the human form; and 40 paintings by New Yorker Wolfson, whose subtle shades sing in soft harmony. Through...
Domestic affairs did not go much better. After 1958, agricultural output fell fairly steadily. In 1963 there was a catastrophically bad harvest, and the Soviet Union had to spend hoarded reserves of currency on the world market to buy millions of tons of grain. There were industrial difficulties in allocation of resources: the military pressed for its habitual lion's share while the technocrats demanded the same resources in order to meet Premier Khrushchev's exuberant promises of advances in consumer goods...