Word: continentalist
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Sullivan observes that neither Thatcher's anti-Soviet stance nor her "crucial" and positive relationship with President Reagan softened appreciably during Carrington's tenure. And while Carrington--a self-described European or Continentalist--was the official English delegate to the European Economic Community, Thatcher substantially reduced the country's contributions to the body. Sullivan also holds that Thatcher has moved decisively and permanently away from the sort of alliance that she had with Carrington: instead of reinstating him after the Falkands furor had cooled, she appointed Jeffrey Howe--a right-wing monetarist and close associate. Even among the wets, "Other...
...category of clothing and personal affects lies the bulk of Continentalist expression. To penetrate from the outside inwards, the raincoat is a universal fact. Anybody knows every Frenchman has a trenchcoat and that (Britain may be thrown in with the Continent in this case) every Englishmean has got his McIntosh...
...term "continentalist" is much preferred. The term "isolationist"'has been falsely branded upon farsighted individuals who strongly disbelieve that our entrance in the European struggle is essential to our future well being...
With international financial circles still agitated over last week's agreement between Ford of Germany and the German I. G. F. Dye Trust, Continentalist Ford announced a $30,000,000 deal with Soviet Russia. Soviet and Ford representatives signed a contract providing that a Ford plant with a capacity of 100,000 cars a year should be built at Nizhniy Novgorod (between Leningrad and Moscow) and that $30,000,000 of Ford products should be purchased within the next four years. Thus Ford-General Motors competition has been extended to Russia (and Asia) where the Ford Novgorod plant will...
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