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Personality Change. By their very lack of passion at the new realities, European statesmen proved that there is still a lot of life in deep-rooted nationalism, whether De Gaulle's or anyone else's. The Communists had found out the same thing in Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary and East Germany. There were differences: Russia had tried to impose a unity, and Western Europeans had hoped to evolve into a unity by democratic means and for mutual benefit. Western Europeans still insist that the idea of Europe will carry the day, but at the moment there...
...Continent, this need should be good news-but it is not. Just as the U.S. switched in the late 1940s from dependence on coal to oil and natural gas, Europe today is undergoing a basic power change that threatens its $7 billion coal industry and creates problems for statesmen and businessmen alike...
West European statesmen are haunted by the fear that the U.S. will not use her nuclear weapons in case of a massive Soviet attack on Europe, if U.S. territory is not directly threatened. They desperately want some weapons to be under their absolute control...
Before retiring as NATO's Supreme Commander in Europe, General Lauris Norstad set out in November to pay his adieus to Europe's statesmen. The farewell was premature, for President Kennedy asked him to stay on temporarily when the Cuban crisis exploded...
...Rails. Thus the election was more than a momentous turn in French politics. Its impact would be felt on both sides of the Atlantic, for a strong France is vital to the entire Western alliance. But the massive endorsement of De Gaulle also stirred misgivings. For, asked Western statesmen, if he had been a cantankerous, willful ally at the head of a divided nation, what headaches were in store now that Charles de Gaulle was the absolute leader of a united France? He had often repudiated NATO commitments, brusquely disavowed the West's attempts to negotiate a Berlin settlement...