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As other Europeans railed against Charles de Gaulle's vision of a French-led Europe, many Frenchmen last week were uneasily contemplating De Gaulle's influence on their own society. Since the November election turned the National Assembly into a virtual annexe of the Elysée Palace...
"President Roosevelt invited me to take a promenade with him this afternoon at three. I arrived at the White House punctually, in afternoon dress and silk hat, as if we were to stroll in the Tuileries Garden or in the Champs Elysées. To my surprise, the President soon...
The shaking up that the Atlantic Alliance got last month was the work of a single man. And France's claim to dominate Western Europe and to be reckoned with as the leader of a Third Force is also the lengthening extension of that man. Those of his allies...
As the trial continued its flamboyant way, the wild rhetoric of the defendants could not conceal the implacable determination to kill. La Gloire summons French men in many directions. Five of the gunmen who took part in the Petit-Clamart ambush are still at large, including the most dangerous of...
For a man so insistent on having his own sensibilities taken into account, Charles de Gaulle has a gargantuan capacity for being indifferent to everyone else's. Last week, having stood France's friends and neighbors on their ears, De Gaulle triumphantly surveyed the scene for the benefit...