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Word: ravensburg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particularly ebullient moment, De Gaulle rose with a toast to "the friendship that our two peoples have sealed, guided by reason and emotion alike." Then a messenger arrived from the Quai d'Orsay, bearing an urgent news dispatch for Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. It was datelined Ravensburg, West Germany, and it froze the frail Couve in his mahogany chair. It also launched one of the stormiest-and most ludicrous-weeks to date in the increasingly difficult area of Franco-German relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Western Europe: The Ravensburg Incident | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

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