Dr Claude J s Mosha (Tanzania) was re-elected as the Chairperson of the Commission.
It was an event that was really meant to be a kind of coronation of Claude Levi-Strauss, whose work had burst upon the American scene only a few years earlier.
The grasshopper was made in Paris by François-Xavier Lalanne, who, since the 1960s, had exhibited with his wife, Claude, as the Lalannes.
In the end France, much helped by the stubbornness of its then Treasury director, Jean-Claude Trichet (now the ECB's President), stayed in an ERM with wider trading bands.
Speculation is rising that central Banks may intervene to halt the dollar's slide, especially since Jean-Claude Trichet, the ECB's President, called recent moves "disorderly" and "undesirable".
Unwittingly, I say, because Claude was the last person in the world who would consciously create such an image in one's mind.
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