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...Without ever accepting any kind of dependency, [I would] persuade the states along the Rhine, the Alps and the Pyrenees to form a political, economic and strategic bloc; to establish this organization as one of the three world powers and, should it become necessary, as the arbiter...
Over the next few years it will cost France at least that much in greenbacks not spent by U.S. servicemen. But De Gaulle obviously feels the prestige is worth the price. As part of his bargaining with West Germany over the ultimate disposition of French forces beyond the Rhine, De Gaulle announced the withdrawal of 75 French fighter-bombers from Germany-despite the fact that bilateral talks over the French presence are still under Way. Like it or not, the Western alliance was winging toward change...
...Democrats have grabbed the initiative from the C.D.U. and harvested potential voting strength by accepting an East German invitation to a speakers' exchange. As a result, the Social Democrats are given a fighting chance to unseat the Christian Democratic state government in the July 10 elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, where nearly a third of West Germany's voters live. "These things have to be said," Barzel maintained last week. "My feet are firmly planted." What he meant is that they have to be said by a Christian Democrat if the party is to continue to lead West...
Brandt hopes to follow up the speakers' exchange with a free exchange of newspapers between East and West Germany, more contacts with Eastern European countries, and more border passes. How well this all goes down with the voters will get its first test in the North Rhine-Westphalia state elections scheduled for July 10, four days before Brandt goes to his first debate at Karl-Marx-Stadt in East Germany...
Died. Princess Marie Christine of Prussia, 18, great-granddaughter of the last Kaiser, whose father, Prince Hubertus, died of peritonitis when she was three; following the crash of her car, six weeks after her favorite uncle, Prince Friedrich, committed suicide by drowning in the Rhine; in Giessen, Germany...