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Heady Promise. While Ludwig Erhard dreamed of his home-grown Sherman Act, other Europeans had been dreaming even headier dreams. Spurred on by France's Jean Monnet and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, six Western European nations (France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries) early this year finished drawing up treaties to establish both a European Common Market and a European Atomic Energy Community (TIME, March 4). The first of these promised to create within 15 years a single West European market, comparable in size to the continent-wide U.S. market, with free trade within...
Under the warm sun of a republic that suffers kings no more, Prince Henri of France, 24, the eldest son of the Count of Paris, pretender to the nonexistent French throne, and the Duchess Maria-Theresa of Württemberg, 22, were married before 150 other crowned and uncrowned heads of Europe's dwindling but still ornamental nobility. As the elegant 50-car procession wound through the streets of Dreux in one of the most dazzling displays of royal panoply since World War II, thousands of monarchists shouted "Vive le Roi!" Among those present: King Paul and Queen Frederika...
...WHITE (463 pp.)-Henri Troyat-Crowell...
...mills keep grinding out books, but it is likely that the best Russian novel of the year is one written (in French) by a Russian who can barely remember his own country. The refugee is not a good witness of the land he loved and lost; an exception is Henri Troyat. Although he has lived in France since he was nine, he has woven-out of legend, memory, research and love-a valedictory tale of Russia's "former people," whose liquidation began in November 1917. The title evokes Stendhal's The Red and the Black, but this tale...
...Henri Peyre, Sterling professor of French at Yale University. Litt.D...