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...organization and committees. If they do so, they will, like the other major parties, elect a vice president of the Assembly, who will take his turn at presiding. Communist Deputies will likely be among French parliamentary delegations to the Council of Europe and the Common Market Assembly in Strasbourg...
Swirling Tide. Wilson came to try to change Charles de Gaulle's mind about British entry. He had laid the groundwork for his visit only the day before in a speech to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg. Usually a bland speaker Wilson this time sounded almost like De Gaulle himself, even borrowing such favorite terms of the general as "nation states and "diversity in unity." He endorsed De Gaulle's desire for a "real and living peace with our neighbors to the East." He even managed to sound properly alarmed about the Americans by warning that Europe...
...Rome, where he also talked with Pope Paul VI about Viet Nam, Wilson made only the first of a series of forays into the heart of Europe. This week he takes his case to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, then goes to Paris for a meeting with the man whose non in 1963 blocked the first British attempt. Next month Wilson will visit the other Common Market capitals. Says he: "What we seek is to make a practical reality of a vision-a vision of a Europe which, strong and united, will be able to play an effective part...
...example, Americans control 30% of Europe's automaking, 50% of the West German oil industry and 90% of the French computer industry. Obviously, new plants mean jobs. G.M. expects to hire 6,000 for its Antwerp plant and another 3,000 workers for the transmission plant at Strasbourg. Beyond this, the U.S. demand for money now seems to be having a salutary effect on European capital markets...
...daughter with an intimate party for 100. The 20-ft.-long, damask-covered buffet table was laden with baked Prague ham, Alpine trout stuffed with Iranian caviar, roast venison from the Black Forest, Texas rattlesnake meat, capon breasts and small partridges on toast, Stuttgart quail, alligator soup, Strasbourg pâté de foie gras and aged black Chinese eggs. For hors d'oeuvres there were salted jasmine flowers, candied silkworms, toasted grasshoppers and grilled African honeybee. The wines were Moët & Chandon champagne ('59 and '61) and reds and whites from the Crimea...