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Brooks has been a prominent figure in fund-raising for the University science program in general, and as dean of the Graduate School, he has become something of a scientific statesman...
...from 17 now independent nations, including Senegal's Léopold Sedar Senghor and the Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who revered De Gaulle as the father of their freedom. Several faces from the past turned up, notably Israel's Elder Statesman David Ben-Gurion, former British Prime Ministers the Earl of Avon (Anthony Eden), Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson, and former West German Chancellors Ludwig Erhard and Kurt-Georg Kiesinger. Seated among the 6,000 mourners in Notre Dame was Senator Edward Kennedy, who remembered De Gaulle's immediate decision...
Despite his conservative attitude toward the concept of Europe, De Gaulle pursued venturesome policies elsewhere. In 1964, France became the first Western power since the Korean War to extend recognition to Peking. He became the first Western statesman who actively sought to build ties with the East Bloc and to overcome the rigidities of the cold war. He proposed a gradual easing of tension by a process he described as deéenté, entente, coopération. He recognized the Oder-Neisse line as Poland's western border and urged Bonn to do the same. He also urged...
...tributes paid to this great man were traces of foreboding among the political leaders of the world. The absence of a powerful representative for the Arab nations can only aggravate the already explosive atmosphere in the contiguous region of the Suez. All too often the death of the great statesman produces a plethora of regret not accompanied by equally sincere actions and efforts...
...since 1953 visiting foreign capitals and talking diplomacy-it is peculiar for an American politician to have made so many visits to Communist countries. His failure to propose or push imaginative domestic programs becomes comprehensible in light of his real objectives in the White House-to become a world statesman and undisputed leader of the "free world...