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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Dec. 11--Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak defended the rescue of white hostages in the Congo as a last recourse undertaken after Congo rebels threatened to cook them alive...
...grim voice Spaak told the U.N. Security Council Friday that some African nations in the debate over the rescue mission were trying to split Africa from Europe and "even to pit black man against the white...
While De Gaulle has insisted all along that the only feasible political union must be a loose confederation of sovereign states, convinced Europeans such as Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak have clung to the ideal of a single, truly supranational U.S. of Europe. ("Spaakistan!" snorts De Gaulle.) Recently, however, Spaak has come round to the Gaullist approach, at least as a practical first step toward ultimate integration. Moreover, at week's end there were signs that Charles de Gaulle might also be in a mood for compromise. After an hour's chat with his old antagonist...
...Spaak's proposals were both a grudging vindication of the policies of France's Charles de Gaulle and a sharp personal retreat. For confederation was, in fact, the point of the French Fouchet Plan rejected by De Gaulle's more supranationally minded Common Market partners in 1962. And in observing that "if the British don't want to do anything about it, the Six must go ahead." Spaak abandoned the position that the "Friendly Five" have defended ever since De Gaulle excluded the British from the Common Market early in 1963: that further progress toward unity...
Signs of Change. In unabashedly reversing himself, Spaak, a canny compromiser of old, was reversing toward reality. For the Europe of 1964 is in flux as never before since World War II -East and West. The war left Eastern Europe in tight military fiefdom to Russia, Western Europe in economic and military dependence upon the U.S., continental Europe thus little more than a no man's land where the outer edges of the two superpowers' spheres of influence menacingly met. No longer. Though the basic postwar pattern remains superimposed across the map of Europe, the nations of Europe...