Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...negative thinking. Last week, in Press Conference No. 16, he surpassed himself. "In 100 minutes," as Paris Le Populaire tidily summed it up, "General de Gaulle in the name of France called for secession of French-speaking Quebec in Canada, tossed England out of Europe, threatened the Common Market with destruction, called the U.S. the principal enemy and suavely knifed Israel." But the broadside effort took its toll. The general's skeins of rationality grew considerably tangled in spots, and he tried to make up for the lack with an extra dosage of sarcasm and heavy humor...
...questions at the outset from the 1,100 newsmen assembled in the Elysee Palace's elegant Salle des Fetes, he broke in when someone asked if it were true that he had said he wanted to see Britain "stripped naked" be fore allowing it to enter the Common Market (see box, opposite page). "I am going to answer you at once," he said slyly. "Nudity for a beautiful creature is natural enough, and for those around her is rather satisfying. But whatever attraction I feel for England, I never said that about her." Having got his guffaws and proved...
...Britain, clad or unclad, entry into the Common Market was out of the question, despite his "exceptional esteem, attachment and respect" for the British people. To admit Britain now with all its economic ills and un-Eu-ropean ways of doing business would be to destroy the Common Market, he said. Europe and Britain are "incompatible." However, De Gaulle added generously, France would be glad to consider some form of second-class associate membership for Britain to "favor commercial exchanges...
...cheering House of Commons that "we have slammed down our application on the table. There it is and there it remains." But in the face of so vehement a second veto, Britain may eventually have to come around to accepting some form of transitional association with the Common Market until De Gaulle is gone. Prime Minister Lester Pearson of Canada angrily denounced the general's "intervention" in Canadian domestic policies as "unacceptable" and "intolerable." Said Pearson: "I believe the statement distorted some Canadian history, misrepresented developments and wrongly predicted the future." The Frankfurter Rundschau suggested sarcastically that De Gaulle...
...interviews with several hundred people who had talked with De Gaulle over a period of 20 years. In a recent Paris-Match article, Tournoux quoted De Gaulle as saying: "England-I want her in the nude," meaning shorn of all economic and political power before admission to the Common Market. And like most of his bons mots, insists Tournoux, this one has been used by De Gaulle over and over in private conversations. "I was told this one by two ministers who are still in the government, by one minister who has since resigned and by two senior officials...