Word: pan-european
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Since then, working out of its own bureaus in Luxembourg and Brussels, and through a Pan-European chain of correspondents, Agence Europe has continued to pry into Common Market affairs with uncommon energy. One Market official in Luxembourg complains that every time he opens his desk drawer, "out pops an Agence Europe spy." To foil Gazzo and his men, the European bureaucracy runs security checks on its own typists and secretaries, once hired a female acquaintance of Gazzo's as a counterspy. The scheme fell through when the lady loyally peached. When Britain's Common Market mission moved...
...Kremlin also proposes a grandiose Pan-European security system in which 30 or more nations, including the Soviet Union but not the U.S. (except as an "observer"), would mutually guarantee the peaceful intentions...
...most effective public appearance was at a National Press Club luncheon, where he explained France's problems and position in lucid and illuminating fashion. He promised early French ratification of the Paris agreements for a united defense of free Europe, scorned the Soviet proposal for a Pan-European conference and dispelled doubts that he might be thinking of a Franco-Russian flirtation. "As Prime Minister of France," he said, "I am convinced that our number one task is to fight against the deceptive attractions of Communism with the positive weapons of truth, justice and progress...
...Soviet Union made an astonishing proposal last week. In 1,700-word notes to Britain, France and the U.S., Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov invited the U.S. to join his proposed pan-European security alliance and in return asked for a seat for Russia in the councils of NATO...
...Western diplomats promptly skewered the Soviet maneuver for the impossible thing it was. The State Department noted that only a few weeks ago at Berlin, Molotov had lambasted NATO and introduced his pan-European pact idea with the specific proviso that the U.S. should be excluded except as an "observer." Now he was switching decks. "It is a maneuver," said the U.S. spokesman, "to gain admittance within the walls of the West, to undermine its security...