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NATO's unhappiest hour was in 1966, when Charles de Gaulle summarily withdrew his country from military participation in the alliance and evicted NATO from installations in France, including military headquarters at Rocquencourt and Fontainebleau. To a degree, De Gaulle's decision was perhaps an unavoidable product of his own intense nationalistic pride. But his action also reflected the larger problem that NATO has historically been overly dependent upon...
Ceremony & Grand Cru. Humphrey arrived on the Continent in the same week that the last American flags were lowered at Rocquencourt, the NATO headquarters outside Paris on which French President Charles de Gaulle had posted an April 1 eviction notice. Simultaneously in Geneva, the Kennedy Round of tariff talks between the U.S. and the European Common Market were nearing an April 30 deadline with many problems still unresolved...
...Gaulle imperiously decreed that he wants all forces belonging to his 14 NATO partners removed from French soil by next April 1. He meant, of course, chiefly the Americans, whose 26,000 troops dwarf other national contingents, but he also intended to evict the NATO military headquarters in Rocquencourt, near Paris. Last week began the inevitable fencing aimed at delaying or modifying the departures. It was led off by some fancy footwork...
...same date, French officers in NATO's two military headquarters at Rocquencourt and Fontainebleau must pack their duffel bags and go home to strictly French military duties...
...SHAPE, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, with its 500 officers and 2,500 men at Rocquencourt, near Paris...