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Rebuff at Strasbourg. De Gaulle derided the East-West test ban treaty with the gibe: "Numerous states have agreed, and for good reason: they lack the means to carry out the tests. It's a little bit like asking someone not to swim across the Channel." As for criticisms that Gaullist France has become increas ingly isolated in Western councils, De Gaulle proclaimed: "I can tell you with full knowledge of the facts that never has France been more closely supported or more sought after than today...
...brave talk. But the real test of France's influence is that its neighbors are vehemently opposed to the force de dissuasion and resent French attempts to weaken the Atlantic Alliance. Be fore the Council of Europe in Strasbourg last week, Michel Habib-Deloncle, De Gaulle's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, urged support for an independent European deterrent, based on France's nuclear force, and even invited British participation. Said he: "If Great Britain conceives its future to be in the European Community, she can find in this field the occasion for a positive contribution...
...pipeline also promises to work an industrial transformation. Along its route four new refineries have already sprouted, two at Karlsruhe and two at Strasbourg; two more are under construction at Worth-Rhein and Mannheim north of Karlsruhe, and France is building a seventh refinery near Lyon. Moreover, work is already under way on a 156-mile extension of the pipeline from Karlsruhe into Bavaria, where at least four more refineries are planned by 1966. The Italians are also entering the area with a new pipeline from Genoa over the Alps into southern Bavaria. Before long, possibly 16 refineries...
...Gagging geese in Strasbourg are force fed by husky women who stuff funnels down their gullets, the better to make foie gras. A herd of hefty women on the Bismarck Archipelago bolt down endless helpings of tapioca, the better to make fat wives for the scrawny chieftain...
...support for retaliatory measures against France. West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, who was in tears at Brussels when France blackballed Britain, went home breathing defiance of De Gaulle and threats to topple Konrad Adenauer. He got nowhere (see West Germany). And after all the oratory at Strasbourg, a "solemn protest" motion condemning De Gaulle's "domination" of Europe was defeated by a tie vote of 38-38-hardly a resounding gesture of defiance...