Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frost still silvered the trees on Strasbourg's Avenue de la Paix last week as Charles de Gaulle stood up and peeled off his khaki greatcoat. Before 2,800 officers summoned from Algeria, Germany and France, he launched into a sonorous speech commemorating the 17th anniversary of Strasbourg's liberation by French tanks. "France," declared its President, "is again menaced, body and soul." Later, staring icily at a tight-lipped audience that included 80 generals and admirals, President de Gaulle turned abruptly to the force that menaces France more urgently than any outside invader: its divided, disaffected army...
...proposals to it-and it can modify them only by a unanimous vote. The commission usually prevails. In addition, the Six have also established a seven-man Court of Justice, which arbitrates technical disputes. The Six have set up a 142-member Parliament that meets periodically in Strasbourg, consists of parliamentarians elected by and from the members' national legislatures. But the Treaty of Rome stipulates that in time the representatives are to be elected by direct vote of the Community's populations. Though their work is often highly technical, the men who run the Common Market seldom forget...
Frenchmen looked up in wonder last year as a big orange balloon carrying two passengers floated back and forth across the country. Photographed by movie cameras in an accompanying helicopter, the balloon whisked by the spires of the Strasbourg Cathedral, almost bumped into the Eiffel Tower, skimmed within a few yards of Mont Blanc, dipped down to mast level over the Riviera. In Paris last week the resulting film, Voyage in a Balloon, gave audiences a stunning cloud's-eye view of virtually every remarkable tourist sight in France...
Leveling the Obstacles. The novel experiment in Protestant monasticism was begun by Roger Schutz, 45, the ninth child of a Swiss Calvinist pastor and a French mother, who turned from agnosticism to study theology at Lausanne and Strasbourg and enter the ministry himself. In 1940, determined to serve where the need was greatest, he went to defeated France and settled in a rambling old stone building at Taizé, where for two years he hid Jews from the Nazis. The Germans never caught him. When they occupied Taizé, Schutz had returned to Switzerland. With four friends he continued...
...frame for Bill Mauldin's expert cartoons of Willie and Joe, the two war-weary, grizzled infantrymen who patiently endured everything that Nazi and U.S. generalship threw their way. With courage, Stripes correspondents dug in at the front among combat troops: during the Battle of the Bulge, the Strasbourg edition was printed for several days from Nazi territory; before the war ended, Stripes correspondents died in action at the battlefront...