12 APRIL 1963, Page 9

The mild boo to de Gaulle has at long last

been made, of course. I heard Mr. Adlai Stevenson in Bonn make the same sort of state- ment as he had made in London a few days be- fore about multilateralism, and indicate precisely America's wish for some suitable addition to the Franco-German treaty declaring that it was not in conflict with Germany's wider commitments. Soon after Mr. Stevenson's brisk visit a group of politicians went off to Cadenabbia to convince Chancellor Adenauer that a preamble concili- atory in some degree to the United States was absolutely necessary, and miraculously they seem to have succeeded.