Word: polarise
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No statesman of this century has been more successful than Charles de Gaulle at infuriating his friends and delighting his enemies. Last week le grand Charles did it again, throwing the Common Market negotiations into confusion, blackballing Britain's bid for membership, and disdainfully rejecting the U.S. offer of...
Raising his champagne glass, Charles de Gaulle affably wished a happy new year to the newsmen invited to his annual press reception at the Elysee Palace last week. But he refused to discuss the issue upper most in every reporter's mind: President Kennedy's proposal to supply...
No one-not even Charles de Gaulle-could say with certainty what form the Polaris offer might finally take. Kennedy promised at Nassau to equip British nuclear submarines with the missile on condition that the government commit its Polaris fleet to NATO for the defense of Western Europe as a...
The U.S., which badly wants De Gaulle to restore to NATO command the troops and ships that he has pulled out of the alliance, plainly hoped that the potent, durable Polaris might prove an alluring offer. After a flying trip to Palm Beach for consultation with Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador Charles...
President Kennedy's success in the Cuban crisis has had an extremely odd aftermath. One of its less happy results has been to swell Mr. Kennedy's head to the point where he feels that he may treat his allies exactly as he pleases, and have them take it. Likely...