Word: rambouillets
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...Sanctuary. Last week, in his drive to realize his vision, De Gaulle stood alone, if not quite politically isolated, in Europe. Since last July he had been summoning the statesmen of the other Common Market nations to his forested sanctuary at the Château of Rambouillet to explain his proposals. From Italy's Amintore Fanfani to Luxembourg's Premier Pierre Werner, his distinguished visitors went away awed but uncowed, concerned and dismayed...
...Adenauer goes in courting Britain depends chiefly on France's Charles de Gaulle. Three weeks ago in a meeting with Adenauer at Rambouillet, De Gaulle pressed on the Germans his dreams of a new European political structure-perhaps a permanent series of European summit meetings or a permanent consultative secretariat for political coordination. Still intent on establishing French leadership of the Continent, De Gaulle was trying to create a counterweight to the U.S. within the Western alliance. Adenauer regards the U.S. alliance as basic to Bonn's for eign policy and thinks De Gaulle's dream dangerous...
...closeted themselves for two days in the elegant presidential chateau at Rambouillet 30 miles outside Paris. Security was so tight that a small crowd was chased away from the fence, and not even the menus for the meals were published. Once Adenauer slipped out for an hour's visit to the great Gothic cathedral at Chartres. For the rest of the time the two men talked and walked, engaged in earnest conversation with barely a handful of officials present...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. meeting, echoed Secretary Herter's warning that there was little prospect for significant agreements being reached at the summit, and implied that any progress at all depended on Soviet willingness to abandon its demands on West Berlin. Only a month before, sauntering through the Rambouillet gardens with the visiting Khrushchev, Charles de Gaulle had concluded that Nikita was not going to press too hard at the summit. But five days after Dillon's speech, Khrushchev made a speech at the oil town of Baku, rattling his rockets, reviving his threats on Berlin...
...that God has invested Germany with the special mission of saving Europe . . . This is the rebirth of Hitler's theory of a master race . . . Vengeance is being reborn in Germany." Down on the Farm. His tour ended, all that was left was to dicker with De Gaulle at Rambouillet. While Madame de Gaulle and Nina Khrushchev visited the little Rambouillet dairy originally created as a plaything for Marie Antoinette, the husbands walked the sandy paths of the chateau grounds, plowing through the whole range of East-West problems: disarmament, Algeria, Berlin, and the future of Germany. Out of their...