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...Sanctuary. Last week, in his drive to realize his vision, De Gaulle stood alone, if not quite politically isolated, in Europe. Since last July he had been summoning the statesmen of the other Common Market nations to his forested sanctuary at the Château of Rambouillet to explain his proposals. From Italy's Amintore Fanfani to Luxembourg's Premier Pierre Werner, his distinguished visitors went away awed but uncowed, concerned and dismayed...
...France's Common Market partners are displeased by De Gaulle's cold assertion that their hope of ultimately converting the Common Market into a true European political union is so much supranational moonshine. De Gaulle's alternative is a confederation of sovereign states whose premiers would hammer out common policy at regular meetings. "A Europe of fatherlands" is the way he sees it. To nearly all the advocates of European unity, this simply seemed a discouraging step backward toward the old-fashioned ententes and alliances of the past...
...smaller Common Market nations, led by the Dutch, were even unhappier at the thought of losing their present small voice in NATO affairs to De Gaulle's proposed super-directorate. They were distressed by the weakening of the alliance implicit in De Gaulle's demand for replacement of integrated NATO military forces by independent national commands. On both scores, Washington agrees. Three weeks ago the U.S. quietly informed the NATO Council of its flat opposition to all De Gaulle's plans for "reforming the alliance...
...myopic focus on military strength blinds us to our overriding common interests with all countries. We have a deep responsibility to contribute effectively and promptly to the economic and social development of other countries, instead of drawing them into the nuclear conflict. The great populations of Asia, Africa, and South America seek a more representative influence on world affairs. Only the creation of political and economic structures capable of realizing the technical possibilities and human potentialities can meet the needs of these dynamic societies. We must not impose the Cold War upon them, but encourage new solutions which...
Arthur Freeman 1G, Poet to the Class of 1959, will analyze "Poetry from the Inside Out." This group will discuss the writing of poetry and reading of it in terms of writing. Another seminar, "Literature and the Common Reader," is designed to promote more perceptive reading of poetry and fiction. Piers I. Lewis, teaching fellow in General Education, and Reuben A. Brower, Master of Adams House, will lead this section...