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...face the threat of Charles de Gaulle to break up the Market. So intricate did their discussions become that the question was who needed the most blackboards to diagram his proposals. At week's end delegates seemed satisfied that important progress had been made. Said Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak gamely: "There will be no breakup of the Common Market...
Against Erhard's classic economic view is an older, more restrictive European feeling that things should really be better arranged. State planning was the goal of France's Jean Monnet, Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, and many of the others, who germinated the Common Market, and it has been adopted as national policy by De Gaulle's France. The elaborate French plan sets production goals and controls for most of French industry, rewarding those who conform to the plan with government loans and tax breaks. Like Erhard, many men in the business establishment around the Continent...
...empowered only to negotiate a test-ban agreement, he expects to "explore" other cold war problems, such as Berlin and Russia's failure to enforce the Laotian neutrality pact. On those matters Khrushchev so far did not appear to budge. Talking to Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak in Kiev last week, Khrushchev said: "Berlin is the foot that Kennedy has in Europe. Every time I want to, I'll stamp...
...name, was a petulant and ill-mannered creature, who posed the other chickens around and sometimes ate their food. If the old woman tried to punish her, Charlie just stopped laying eggs. So the crafty peasant woman taught the other chickens (whose names were Ludwig, Amintore, and Paul-Henri to peck Charlie, and she taught Charlie's baby chicks to form little circles around their mother so she couldn't move. The woman even told her son, who wrote a column about giraffes for the New York Times, to put up little signs in the barnyard saying: "Pride Goeth Before...
Item. The Belgian Foreign Minister, Paul-Henri Spaak, made a public plea after the blackball that negotiations be continued without French presence. This idea, which would have violated the statutes of the Market, has been attributed by persistent rumors to American instigation. A similar suggestion was made to the German Foreign Minister in an eleventh-hour note from Dean Rusk...