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Violated Spirit. In other Common Market capitals, the reaction to the Roman surprise was one of irritation tempered by caution. A number of European statesmen complained privately that the restriction represented a beg-gar-thy-neighbor attempt by the Italians to solve their own problems at other countries' expense. Some even questioned the legality of the move, suggesting that Italy had violated the spirit, if not the letter, of the EEC charter. The Common Market has been built on the idea of a free exchange of goods...
...something less than what the Nixon Administration expected could be counted as a triumph for Gaullist foreign policy. There was no little irony in the fact that when the President of the U.S. finally made his trip to Europe last week, it was not to be photographed with fellow statesmen at a summit or to sign a new Atlantic Charter, but to attend a memorial service for a statesman who had criticized American foreign policy...
...there no statesmen of stature in Europe today? "Cher monsieur," he answered with a rare grin, "the novel is in bad shape today, and so is Europe. We are not finishing our novels, and God is not putting the finishing touches on great men. The last of the great men of our day is Mao, and he is not in Europe...
...relations have entered "a more difficult period." Beyond the agenda, there were other items to be discussed in Moscow that would make his trip particularly critical. In the course of his visit, as politely as possible, Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders were bound to ask critical questions that nag statesmen everywhere: can President Nixon survive Watergate, or should the Soviets prepare to deal with someone else? Kissinger's probable answer: Nixon will survive, but even if he does not, the institutional structure of the U.S. is strong enough to stand an impeachment trial, and the U.S. will fulfill its commitments...
...America's truckers [Feb. 18] are the first statesmen to appear on the scene since Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy. They are trying to help all of us fight inflation by asking for a price rollback instead of following the politicians' advice to pass the huge price increases on to us. What a miscarriage of justice that the present Congress is siding with oil companies and not with these heroic drivers...