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...federal,' " laments Lord Gladwyn, a member of Britain's delegation to the European Parliament at Strasbourg, "they think you are going to abolish the Queen. If you say 'supranational,' they think a French gendarme is going to hit them over the head. Eventually, if prices do not rise too much, if there is not great unemployment, if there hasn't been an invasion of Italians raping all the women, then people will simply accept...
Sprawled along the left bank of the Rhine River on the French-German frontier, the ancient city of Strasbourg (pop. 250,000), typifies the jarring blend of old and new that is Europe today. Thick-walled 17th century fortresses, built by the great French engineer Vauban, and a toweringly spired Gothic cathedral look down on postwar synthetic-rubber factories and petrochemical plants. Although 300 miles from the North Sea, Strasbourg is France's largest port for exports; Common Market-bred prosperity has all but erased old fears that the city might once again become the object of French-German...
...Alsatian wine-barrel maker, has changed nationalities five times in her long life. She was born French, but became German in 1870 when Bismarck's army marched across the Rhine and took possession of Alsace and Lorraine. She remained German until 1918, when the French returned to Strasbourg. In 1940 Hitler made her German again, and in 1944 she was back where she began, a citizen of the French Republic. "My only wish," she says, at the age of 108, "is not to change again. I want to die French...
...Rene Schaller, 37, once studied theology at Strasbourg and Paris but decided he did not have a vocation to the priesthood. Now a marriage counselor, he is married, has two children and is a driving force behind the international expansion of the diaconate. A deacon since 1970, Schaller has made his "parish" a newly built quarter on the periphery of Lyons. There he is president of a tenants' union, which defends renters in disputes with landlords. He also performs marriages and baptisms for anticlerical couples who resent the presence of priests but are willing to accept the new deacons...
...short, the European Parliament is something of a laughingstock among legislatures. It has no permanent home and meets variously in Strasbourg or Luxembourg, while its 13 standing committees usually convene in Brussels. The Parliamentarians, 1,200 members of the secretariat and 30 tons of documents are perpetually shuttling between the three cities. That predicament has turned a Luxembourg trucking company into one of the continent's most prosperous and made good business for hotels. It has also earned some of the peripatetic Parliamentarians the distinction of being the hardest-drinking legislators in the world and made the "Strasbourg girl...