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...First Swallow. To a Europe in need of inspiration, the words evoked memories of Charlemagne, France's Due de Sully and his 17th century "Grand Design," and other great "European" statesmen. "The Talleyrand of the 20th century," cried West Berlin's Tagesspiegel, delighted with evidence of Adenauer-style Europe-mindedness from a man once considered to be concerned only with French grandeur. In the U.S., where De Gaulle's soaring prestige had finally won him something close to his longstanding demand for equality with Britain in U.S. counsels, his assurances of France's solidarity with...
...stiffly goose-stepping German Communist honor guard, then stepped to the microphones, fished in his pockets for a prepared statement, and read it in a flat monotone voice. He reiterated his Paris line that the summit failure was the fault of the U.S., and sneered at nameless U.S. statesmen who "are pulled on the strings of the militarists." But that was the last glimmer of fire. For a man who had just stormed out of Paris spewing a blizzard of invective and cracking jokes right and left, his performance was odd, unexpected, and curiously neutral...
Best guess was that Khrushchev had concluded from recent speeches of Western statesmen that he was not going to hornswoggle the West into concessions either by "peaceful coexistence" or even summitry-and had decided to leap ahead of his critics. For in Communism's harsh code, only results count. Peering over Khrushchev's shoulder is Red China's Mao Tse-tung, who challenges him as a Marxist theoretician and as leader of the "Socialist camp." Mao, who knows that it is not China that will get hit in a nuclear holocaust, has insistently been crying out against...
...British statesmen since 1955 have vehemently insisted that Britain's leadership of the Commonwealth ruled out British membership in the Common Market. If Britain joined the Common Market, the argument ran, it would have to abandon the "imperial preference" system, which allows Commonwealth nations to export many agricultural products to Britain duty-free, gives them a substantial tariff advantage even on the manufactured goods they ship to Britain. As a counter, Britain organized the European Free Trade Area-the so-called Outer Seven...
...time when the Korean public would accept gestures in lieu of performance had passed. Summoned to Rhee's office, six of Korea's most respected statesmen all gave him the same advice: Lee Ki Poong, whose fraudulent election had made him the prime target of popular hatred, must resign as Vice President-elect...