Word: european
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Also no help to NATO morale is the attitude of France's Charles de Gaulle who now openly, almost contemptuously, rejects integrated European defense, the very cornerstone of the NATO concept. Upset by this, the smaller countries found a way to assert themselves when De Gaulle proposed that a permanent political consultative body be established within the new six-nation Common Market structure. Fearing this would mean domination by France, Belgium and The Netherlands bluntly vetoed the scheme. "We do not want our country run from the Quai d'Orsay," said one Dutch official...
...Labor's 258 M.P.s, and cast blocks of a million or more votes at party conferences. And Gaitskell also appealed to the original aims for which Keir Hardie and his cloth-capped trade-union radicals-none of them socialists in the doctrinaire sense of the continental European Socialist parties-founded the British Labor Party at the turn of the century...
...FARE CUTS will come fast next year on international routes. Starting in April, British European Airways will chop prices an average 17% on 400 fares throughout routes in Britain, Europe and the Middle East. Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) will cut air-freight rates as much as 80% next spring...
...highly publicized Brooklyn dress manufacturer who didn't know the name of the premier of Ceylon and the German-speaking Ambassador to France are all too typical of American amateur diplomats. Such men are needed, in the cases of Paris, London and other Western European capitals, because a career man cannot afford the huge expenditures of an embassy social season; they are used in other cases because the United States has not awakened to the importance in international relations of normal diplomatic channels and a competent man on the spot...
Will such a change weaken the European community? Duroselle thinks not. "De Gaulle favors the common market," he says, "and within seven years--the length of his term--the market will be revitalized. Then the necessity of a common currency will appear, and it is plain that you can't have a common currency without having a common policy in many areas. The trend towards integration now seems to be irresistible...