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...vision, De Gaulle stood alone, if not quite politically isolated, in Europe. Since last July he had been summoning the statesmen of the other Common Market nations to his forested sanctuary at the Château of Rambouillet to explain his proposals. From Italy's Amintore Fanfani to Luxembourg's Premier Pierre Werner, his distinguished visitors went away awed but uncowed, concerned and dismayed...
...Luxembourg's tiny army of fewer than 2,000 men, the only general is the husband of the reigning Grand Duchess, and a lowly major is "Commander of the Troops." Stocky Major Aloyse Schiltz, 41, a World War II paratrooper who escaped from the Nazis and saw action with the British, was also Luxembourg's chief representative at NATO's Central Europe headquarters in Fontainebleau. On last Feb. 29, for one day, he became one of the key men of the entire Western world...
French General Jean Etienne Valluy, commander in chief, Allied Forces Central Europe, summoned him to explain his dereliction, but Major Schiltz could not. The Luxembourg government in turn summoned him to explain, but still the major could not. Finally last week a grand-ducal decree announced that the whole lamentable affair would be placed in the hands of a special court. Sighed one Luxembourg official last week: "There we were, a small nation, permitted to participate in NATO. But who will take us seriously...
...Together. Since then, De Gaulle no longer challenges NATO's power to order planes of all member nations into immediate action in case of a Soviet attack. (In tactful return, Norstad saw to it that a French officer would command the aircraft of France, West Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg.) On their own initiative French diplomats have proposed some new form of NATO "association" for France's Mediterranean Fleet-which De Gaulle pulled out from under NATO command last March...
...German radio industry refused to provide tubes for Neckermann's sets, and he found a French firm that would. The refrigeration industry refused to manufacture his refrigerators, and he got a Luxembourg firm to do it. While many German firms threw their energies into exports, Neckermann concentrated on the home market. Belatedly aware that they were losing a lot of business by boycotting Neckermann, many German firms came around. Most of Neckermann's appliances are now German-made, though he still must take the bulk of a firm's production to protect it from boycott by others...