Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delegates at Strasbourg were all shades, from blond Scandinavians through coffee-colored Turks to the two Senegalese members of the French delegation. Cracked a newsman: "About the only thing they have in common is monogamy...
Sacred Loyalty. At week's end, Churchill addressed 20,000 people in Strasbourg's main square, after being resoundingly bussed by a young Strasbourgeoise. "Prenez garde, je vais parler fran-çais," warned Churchill ("Look out! I'm going to speak in French...
...Century the Huns destroyed Strasbourg, but the city rose again until it became part of the Holy Roman Empire-the first and only European union. Since then, the single, jagged spire of Strasbourg's red stone cathedral has seen the tides of war sweep back & forth across the Alsatian plain. This week Strasbourg became the center of a great if still uncertain move to revive the dream of European union. In the central hall of Strasbourg's university, delegates from ten European countries assembled in the first session of the Council of Europe...
Next week Churchill leaves for the ten-nation European Council at Strasbourg-the first step toward forming a European Parliament, one of Churchill's pet projects. The day he checks out of the Grand Hotel, an old parliamentary enemy, Minister of Health Aneurin Bevan, is scheduled to arrive. Bevan's party has reserved six rooms at the Grand...
...hard to stomach. He had a supreme disregard for carefully planned strategy. (Says he: "The battle of the Marne was not won by a committee or a plan.") At one point during the fighting, the U.S. command ordered him to fall back to a new line, evacuate Strasbourg; he flatly refused. Another time, he attacked Ulm against instructions because Napoleon had captured...