Word: grandeur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even today, Romans prefer to dwell on the grandeur of classic Rome rather than recall the Etruscan kings, who, as Livy reminded them, could once make the Roman Senate tremble. But tucked away in a corner of Rome's Villa Borghese park is one of the world's richest collections of Etruscan art, which each year is drawing increasing numbers of visitors. Housed in the massive Villa Giulia, built in 1555 as a papal summer resort, the collection today numbers bronzes, terra-cotta sculptures and artifacts in the tens of thousands, displays its choicest treasures in two floors...
...Gaulle's argument has more to it than his mystic yearning for national grandeur. He believes that the Anglo-American nuclear domination of NATO is inducing in Western Europeans a "suicidal" lack of interest in their own defense. Convinced that "French soldiers fight best under the French flag," De Gaulle also opposes the present concept of "integrated" NATO forces, prefers a World War II-style "cooperative alliance," and asks what would become of Western European nations without nuclear weapons if the day came when it did not serve U.S. and British interests to use the nuclear deterrent in local...
...compromise between people who wanted to unite Europe without appearing to do so, and those who wanted to give the appearance of working toward European unity without actually achieving it. And when Charles de Gaulle came to power in France last June with his mystical ideas of national grandeur, doomsayers were quick to compose their epitaphs on European unity...
...only the medieval backdrop gave the scene a curiously old-fashioned air. A scrupulous republican, Charles de Gaulle nonetheless seeks to recall a past regal grandeur (last week his photograph, in the evening dress uniform of an armored-forces general, was ordered displayed in every public building in France). And in the same grand manner, De Gaulle at Bourges took up the national nightmare that has haunted Frenchmen for 4½ bloody years...
...than his ability to turn a compliment was the fact that Debré showed himself well-informed, quick on his feet and willing to listen to argument. To the infinite relief of his British listeners, Debré did not inflict on them the sweeping reflections on France's "grandeur" which they find so hard to take from De Gaulle. Above all he displayed, within the policy limits laid down by De Gaulle, considerable independence. "We kept looking for the string reaching back to Paris," said one British official. "Sometimes it was there. But sometimes it wasn...