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...Hallstein. chairman of the Common Market Commission, tried to change the wording of the proposal to make it more acceptable to the French. He failed. There was nothing to do but summon Heath to hear the final verdict. Each head of delegation read a prepared statement. Belgium's Spaak called the rupture "a monstrous thing.'' Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns was equally bitter, while Germany's Schroder pointedly told the French that "the Bundestag had only ratified the Treaty of Rome in the first place on the assumption that it would be widened to embrace...
Married. Catherine Spaak, 18, starlet niece of Belgium's Vice Premier Paul Henri Spaak; and Fabrizio Capucci, 22, Italian actor, who met her in 1961 while both were filming La Voglia Malta (The Crazy Desire); in Paris...
Belgium's Senate passed a unanimous resolution condemning French intransigence and demanding that talks with Britain be resumed. "A diktat" roared Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak of De Gaulle's presumption to act as all Europe's spokesman. "Our problem is the personality of General de Gaulle. We are not only against his methods but also against his reasons, which are false." If Britain is left out, declared Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns, "the idea of a united Europe will be in crisis." Italy's Premier Amintore Fanfani called it a menace to NATO itself...
...Community concept with its overtones of American participation. It was perhaps the U.S. voice in Europe that De Gaulle feared most. He was even preparing to control the influx of American capital into France with tight new financial regulations (see WORLD BUSINESS). "This Europe that Monsieur Luns and Monsieur Spaak want," sneered a Gaullist Deputy, "this Europe patronized by American generals and General Motors...
...Cause for Alarm. What De Gaulle fears, of course, is any threat to French hegemony in the Common Market-and that is exactly what frightens other European nations. Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak said that only because Britain "stood alone in 1940 is it possible for us to speak today of a Europe that can integrate itself." West Germany's Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder reasserted his conviction that Britain should be admitted to the Common Market. But Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, fearful of offending his old friend De Gaulle on the eve of a visit...