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Breakfast in Bed. There are at least 30 children's hotels in Britain, and in France one called La Botel (derived from "bébé" and "hotel") has just opened in the hamlet of Bérchereau, about five miles from Rambouillet, where tots have acres to romp in, and cars run two round trips to Paris every...
Change of Tone. De Gaulle's most derisive comments were aimed at Harold Macmillan and his countrymen, who "always manage to seem so respectable." Describing the Prime Minister's talks with him at Rambouillet last December, he related: "Mr. Macmillan came to tell me we were right in making our force de frappe. 'We have our own, too,' he told me. 'We should try to associate them in a European framework independent of America.' On this, he left me for the Bahamas." There, according to De Gaulle, Macmillan betrayed him by agreeing instead...
Seven Reasons. In London, British officials produced their own minutes of the Rambouillet talks, which contained no hint that Macmillan had ever proposed a deterrent "independent of America." The Prime Minister, they said, had indeed agreed that De Gaulle should push ahead with his force de frappe, but had pointedly expressed his hopes that it would eventually be assigned to NATO. Snapped one official: "The French have now given seven different reasons why De Gaulle turned down British membership. The only thing they haven't claimed yet is that it was because Scotland beat France 11-6 at rugby...
...most responsible for making these delicate negotiations possible is Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba. Last week Bourguiba landed at Paris in De Gaulle's own plane and rushed 28 miles to Rambouillet castle to talk long into the night with the French President. Full of praise for De Gaulle as "the only man who stands a chance of succeeding in this perilous, courageous Algerian venture," Bourguiba said emotionally: "This has been the most important day of my life...
...telephones and crowded with visitors. In the clinic's driveway, diplomatic limousines came and went. On his orders, diplomats scurried on a triangular course running from Zurich to Paris to Tunis and back. Early this week Bourguiba is scheduled to leave his hospital retreat and journey to rural Rambouillet, outside Paris, for a meeting with France's Charles de Gaulle...