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...Nazi popped up. Arrested on charges of participating in the mass murder of Jews in southern Russia was West Germany's top bodyguard, U.S.-trained Ewald Peters, who heads the federal government's criminal security police. Peters' job was to protect both West German and visiting statesmen, and he was rated as excellent on both scores. U.S. Secret Service men found him highly effective during President Kennedy's visit to West Germany last summer, and had seen him in action again last month during Erhard's visit to President Johnson's Texas ranch. Just...
...make instant, front-page news, the European Common Market has only to cut a tariff or cry "Yankee chickens, go home!" What goes largely unreported is its statesmen's cautious groping toward the political unity for which economic integration is the essential groundwork. Last week, just one year after Charles de Gaulle abruptly scotched Britain's bid to join the Common Market, France's partners were once more engaged in an earnest attempt to bring Britain into an outward-looking, integrated Europe. Highlights...
...their attempts to bridge Europe's age-old nationalisms, Erhard, Segni and other European statesmen will crisscross the Continent in coming weeks. De Gaulle to the contrary, they are convinced that Europe's tenuous economic ties must be anchored in permanent political institutions if the Continent is not to remain forever a headless "torso...
...short of education and loutish of manner; even after he had become the richest man in the country and an intimate of statesmen, he ate ice cream and peas with his knife and wiped his fingers on his neighbors' clothing. But the territory he controlled was larger than Western Europe, its security was protected by strings of private forts erected and maintained by Astor, its commerce was served by a vast private fleet that carried countless thousands of furs to Europe, China, India and South America. In matters of border disputes over the fur trade, the government of Great...
...specifics of the Kennedy rounds. Claiming he had only supported the goals and not the details of the tariff negotiations, he would be in a position to sabotage them and thus promote an independent Europe, stretching from the Atlantic to the Urals, with himself as its elder statesmen...