Word: francomania
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...Francomania. The party's disunity was caused by the fact that Adenauer, Strauss and other West German "Gaullists" had been trying to force the Chancellor's hand in the conduct of foreign policy. Erhard and Foreign Minister Schroder base their policy on alliance with the U.S. and support an Atlantic-oriented, tightly integrated European union. Faithful to this conception, Erhard turned down President de Gaulle's brusque proposal, during recent talks in Bonn, of a loose confederation first of France and Germany, later to be joined by other Continental nations who might want...