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Delighting his Harvard audience with his wit and fielding their questions with diplomatic elusiveness, French Ambassador to the U.S. Herve Alphand last night reiterated France's desire to have "an autonomous nuclear force...
...Alphand said that the recent talks between U.S. Secretary of State Rusk and French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville "do not signify a change in the French mood." Both Parliament and the people are "strongly behind President de Gaulle's ambition that France have its own means to defend itself," he stated...
...Alphand asserted that the French do not discount the possibility of eventually achieving a comprehensive Western force similar to President Kennedy's Grand Design. But this will not come, he said, until "France can participate as an ally to the U.S. and not a satellite...
...question and answer period following Alphand's speech provided the audience with a great deal of amusement. Asked what France's policy was on nuclear testing, Alphand replied: "If the United States and Russia want to stop testing, we certainly will not object...
...Herve Alphand, the French ambassador to the United States, speaks before the Harvard-Radcliffe tonight on the topic "French Views on Europe and the Atlantic Alliance" at 8 p.m. in burr...