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...famed old Vier Jahreszeiten, predicts that new U.S. hotels will create "murderous competition in the top class." To meet the American competition, five foreign airlines-BOAC, British European Airways, Lufthansa, Alitalia and Swissair-have teamed up with the London investment banking house of S.G. Warburg and four Eu~-ropean banks to form European Hotel Corp. The combine plans $50 million worth of hotels for the neglected low-price end of the market in London, Paris, Rome, Frankfurt, Munich and Zurich. The American challenge last month prompted a merger by two of Britain's hotel giants, Forte...
...Britain, clad or unclad, entry into the Common Market was out of the question, despite his "exceptional esteem, attachment and respect" for the British people. To admit Britain now with all its economic ills and un-Eu-ropean ways of doing business would be to destroy the Common Market, he said. Europe and Britain are "incompatible." However, De Gaulle added generously, France would be glad to consider some form of second-class associate membership for Britain to "favor commercial exchanges...
...something new and something old to offer. New was a proposal to increase hemispheric understanding by lofting into space a new satellite that would transmit television programs between north and south. Older was his plea for a barriers-down trading area in Latin America modeled on the Eu ropean Common Market. Javits envisaged a tariff-free trading zone stretching from Tierra del Fuego to the Rio Grande and embracing a population of 220 million with an annual gross national product of $78 billion. He hoped that the U.S. and Canada would ultimately join, forming a market that would dwarf...
This was the cue for Communist dem onstrations in half a dozen West Eu ropean cities; Nikita Khrushchev, no stranger to executions, had the gall to send a personal appeal for clemency to Franco. Grimau's wife vainly urged President Kennedy to intervene. The international pressure only stiffened the regime's determination to carry out the penalty. At a meeting with his Cabinet, Franco upheld the sentence...
Often it is strenuous and strident. The ordinary United States citizen is bound to have the greatest difficulty in drawing a distinction between the tiny minority in Britain and other Commonwealth and Eu- ropean countries who sincerely but misguidedly believe the free world can be saved without vigorous American leadership and the great bulk of each nation that thanks God for that leadership and prays only that it may make no fatal mistake...