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...they accept a role in common-defense planning, De Gaulle had his Secretary of Information pass the word that "France does not want to keep her troops in Germany anyhow." Actually, France does-if for no other reason than the prestige of maintaining a watch east of the Rhine. What concessions De Gaulle might make in exchange were still an open question. But it was clear that he was preparing a hard bargain to ensure France's continued access to NATO's early-warning radar system. His bargaining point: a threat to close French air space to NATO...
...farmer, who spent World War II as a volunteer farm laborer in England and became a British subject, but later returned home to resume his royal titles; by drowning, presumably suicide, the same day his wife of 20 years, Brewery Heiress Lady Brigid Guinness, started divorce action; in the Rhine River near Wiesbaden...
Fears of a Gap. Still unsolved was another problem of the NATO crisis: the fate of the two French army divisions and two air wings now stationed in West Germany. When De Gaulle withdraws his forces from NATO on July 1, will his soldiers stay across the Rhine or go home? Understandably, the Germans are loathe to see the French forces pull out and leave a gap in the NATO armor. De Gaulle, of course, would like to leave French forces in Germany under the old occupation status. To gain leverage on the Germans, Paris has hinted that if French...
Compared to the Mississippi or the Missouri, the 306-mile-long Hudson is a whippersnapper waterway. Nonetheless, there is not a river on the continent that surpasses it in natural beauty; the great Karl Baedeker called its vistas "grander and more inspiring" than the Rhine's. Nor has any other American stream earned so rich a place in the nation's history, art and folklore. Yet the Shatemuc, "the water that flows both ways," as the Algonquin Indians called it, today is the most wantonly abused river in the U.S., its banks in many places a riparian slum...
...when he grudgingly made way for Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor. But politicians who expected him to fade gracefully from the scene at the age of only 87 were soon proved wrong. In last fall's election campaign, Adenauer sorely embarrassed his successor by electioneering up and down the Rhine, pressing for closer cooperation with Charles de Gaulle, needling Erhard's favorite ally, the U.S., for its supposed nuclear "sellout," and hardly disguising his desire for coalition with the Social Democrats, who were determined to oust Erhard from office...