It was one of those weeks that future scholars might well single out as a watershed in postwar history. NATO was meeting for the last time in Paris. No longer would the long black limousines, flags fluttering from their fenders, thread their way along the elegant Avenue Foch to the organization's austere glass-and-steel headquarters. Charles de Gaulle had withdrawn France from NATO's military commands and ordered NATO forces to leave French soil by next April. Consequently, the military arm of NATO was moving to a village in southern Belgium; the civil arm...
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