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These embittered opinions last week seemed long ago and far away. Mellowed by events, tall, uniformed General Charles de Gaulle, 67, and aging Sir Winston Churchill, 83, met for the first time in 14 years in the gardens of the Hotel Matignon, the Paris office-residence of the Premiers of France. The grey, windswept day, with leaves blowing across the garden, had an autumnal look, as did the two figures involved-one in topcoat and scarf, leaning heavily on a stick, and the other still erect but no longer trim. As some 60 top-ranking British and French officers...
...small gilt-and-yellow ambassadors' lobby in the Hotel Matignon could not hold all the newsmen who had come. Some crowded into adjoining rooms; others stood in the courtyard outside, to which loudspeakers carried the cadenced voice. It was Charles de Gaulle's first press conference in five months, and vastly different from the last one, when he appeared surrounded by guards, and the streets of Paris were heavily policed against the threat of parachutists attempting a coup...
Getting Together. Over port and whisky at Paris' Hotel Matignon last week, the two Prime Ministers reminisced amiably about their World War II experiences in North Africa. When they got down to business, the British were pleased by De Gaulle's grasp of what they consider present-day realities. He seemed aware that France was not pulling its weight in NATO, but wanted to exact more say for France in Atlantic councils as his price for more cooperation. The British listened with what diplomats call sympathy (concealing their private misgivings) to De Gaulle's insistence that France...
Scarcely had this extraordinary document arrived in his office in the Hotel de Matignon when De Gaulle got on the phone to General Salan. "Did you approve this manifesto?" barked De Gaulle. Dodging desperately, Salan replied that he had only transmitted...
Perky of eye and light of foot was Yvonne de Gaulle, the seldom-photographed, never political wife of General Charles de Gaulle, off on a shopping tour from their Paris residence in the Hotel de Matignon. Quiet, self-effacing...