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Even Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, perhaps the most implacable foe of De Gaulle's plans for Europe, agreed last week that there was no general support for retaliatory measures against France. West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, who was in tears at Brussels when France blackballed Britain, went home breathing defiance of De Gaulle and threats to topple Konrad Adenauer. He got nowhere (see West Germany). And after all the oratory at Strasbourg, a "solemn protest" motion condemning De Gaulle's "domination" of Europe was defeated by a tie vote of 38-38-hardly...
Arrogant in victory, Krim next challenged the French and was finally overwhelmed by a combined Franco-Spanish army of 300,000 men led by Marshal Henri Petain, which blasted his mountain strongholds with artillery and bombs until Krim at last surrendered in May 1926. The Spanish army, one of whose officers was Generalissimo Francisco Franco, wanted Krim executed, but the French more gallantly shipped him off to exile on Réunion Island in the Indian Ocean...
...name, was a petulant and ill-mannered creature, who posed the other chickens around and sometimes ate their food. If the old woman tried to punish her, Charlie just stopped laying eggs. So the crafty peasant woman taught the other chickens (whose names were Ludwig, Amintore, and Paul-Henri to peck Charlie, and she taught Charlie's baby chicks to form little circles around their mother so she couldn't move. The woman even told her son, who wrote a column about giraffes for the New York Times, to put up little signs in the barnyard saying: "Pride Goeth Before...
Item. The Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, made a public plea after the blackball that negotiations be continued without French presence. This idea, which would have violated the statutes of the Market, has been attributed by persistent rumors to American instigation. A similar suggestion was made to the German Foreign Minister in an eleventh-hour note from Dean Rusk...
Married. Catherine Spaak, 18, starlet niece of Belgium's Vice Premier Paul Henri Spaak; and Fabrizio Capucci, 22, Italian actor, who met her in 1961 while both were filming La Voglia Malta (The Crazy Desire); in Paris...