Word: franco-american
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...debated. But, reiterated the Premier, Algeria is a French domestic problem, and "I must ask the U.N. not to interfere." Quai d'Orsay officials privately warned American correspondents that if the U.S. votes for any resolution recognizing U.N. authority to intervene in Algeria it would seriously jeopardize Franco-American friendship...
Both the U.S. and France agreed to remove those of their functionaries in South Viet Nam who are deemed disturbing to Franco-American harmony. The French agreed to pull the sects of warlords and gangsters off Diem, thereby indicating unblushingly that they have been manipulating them from the start. The French wanted the U.S. to get its man Diem to soft-pedal his anti-French line, to which the U.S. replied that Diem was not its stooge, nor did it want...
...willing to flirt with Russia. U.S. negotiators learned to respect his tough-minded realism, and ordinary bystanders compulsively burst into applause as he passed. "The American people took M. Mendes-France to their hearts,'' said U.S. Ambassador to France Douglas Dillon, "and I can fairly state that . . . Franco-American relations have never been better." Said the Gaullist Aurore, trying its hand at a U.S. idiom: "France got back into the big league, and by the main entrance...
Priority No. 2. Put back Franco-American relations on a healthy basis. This can only be achieved if France ceases to stand like a beggar in the U.S. bread line...
When the old regimes decided to rely on American charity, they committed an unpardonable crime against Franco-American friendship, which can only be based upon mutual respect. The Atlantic alliance should not rely on satellites...