Word: weres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Bonn, there were other complaints. Foreign Office hands complained that 83-year-old Chancellor Adenauer had taken to shaping foreign policy in secret. Others resented Adenauer's insistence that the alliance with France must be the cornerstone of West Germany's international relations. Many German businessmen and...
France Alone. With the big partners at odds, the smaller among the 15 partners in NATO-bureaucratically known as "the less directly responsible powers"-were demanding the right to be heard. NATO's Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak, who wants a thorough re-examination of policy, is convinced that...
Irritating as De Gaulle's lordly disregard of alliance by committee might be, his partners were in no position to make the familiar argument from fear. The idea that everyone must rush to the summit lest Nikita Khrushchev grow impatient and the "momentum" of East-West efforts for peace...
So gracious were the bows, so lavish the assurances of esteem, so charming the exchanges of mutual praise, as Britain's Foreign Secretary arrived in Paris last week that one would think Britain and France were on the best of terms. "There is and must be a special relationship...
Outside Looking In. In hard fact, Britain's relations with France-and with much of the rest of Western Europe-were at their lowest ebb in years. To intimates. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer confided his dark suspicions that British foreign policy was prepared to offer the Germans...