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...most of Europe seemed angry at Charles de Gaulle last week, no one seemed to know quite what to do about him. Speaker after speaker at the European Parliament in Strasbourg ringingly condemned Charles de Gaulle's imperious thumbs down on British membership in the Common Market. As a result, declared Common Market Chairman Walter Hallstein, the Six have been plunged into their "first real crisis-a crisis of confidence." In European capitals from Bonn to Rome, France's Common Market partners spoke bravely of ganging up on De Gaulle, perhaps by blocking his plans for associating France...
Ford is an appropriate successor to Bundy-young, bright, and equally adept at the conference table or the lecture platform. He is an able historian of Western Europe; his Strasbourg in Transition, 1648-1789 won the Harvard University Press faculty prize in 1958. Ford has also been active on several key Harvard committees. He served on the faculty committee on educational policy, was chairman of the 1960 faculty committee studying the Harvard admission system, and has been a trustee of Radcliffe since...
...Strasbourg in Transition, won the coveted Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press for 1958. Ford has also written on seventeenth-century alignments of the French Robe and Sword and contributed to The Diplomats: 1919-1939. His most recent work was "The World of lightenment" in Columbia University's 1961 publication Chapters in Civilization...
...Strasbourg, like Boston, is a port with a history as a "cradle of liberty," Wiggins said, and the two cities are roughly equivalent in size. The University of Strasbourg is almost as large as Harvard, but within five years it will probably boast an enrollment of 20,000 students...
Mayor Pierre , former president of France, escorted the travelers light banquet lasting four hours" on on their arrival in the sister city. They spent the next few days attending the fifth anniversary session of the European Parliament touring the radio and TV studio, listening to a concert of the Strasbourg Symphony Orchestra and meeting with the American Consul General and other officials...