Word: hoffmann
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...United States would be foolish to get involved in any "silly game of reprisals" resulting from France's veto of Britain's application for membership in the European Economic Community, Stanley H. Hoffmann, associate professor of Government, declared yesterday...
...Hoffmann conceded that French President de Gaulle had been successful in blocking President Kennedy's "Grand Design" for an Atlantic Community. But de Gaulle has not been successful in imposing his own design on Europe...
...United States is condemned to something like a Gaullist Europe,...a continuation of the present organization of the Six with more consultation among the governments. America's choice is between this and disrupting the Six altogether." Hoffmann added that the latter course would contradict the basic aims of all post-war American foreign policy...
...prevent this, Hoffmann continued, Washington would probably try to isolate do Gaulle, while applying pressure on him through the rest of Europe. Hoffmann doubted that this approach would prove effective, however, and in subverting European unity "it would destroy the most successful part of our foreign policy since the Second World...
Despite its possible long-term effects on the Western alliance, Britain's exclusion from the E.C.C. would not be a matter of economic life or death for the Island nation. But according to Hoffmann it could spell the end of the present Conservative government...