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This week, on the banks of the River Meuse, France's ex-President Charles de Gaulle broke a long silence. He called for a Western European bloc, built around a Franco-British alliance, to stand as arbiter between the two giants of the East and West. De Gaulle quoted a prophetic countryman, Historian Alexis de Tocqueville, who wrote 111 years...
Less deft was a British bid for France's favor. Because President Felix Gouin had hinted that the Rhineland need not necessarily be severed from Germany, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin tried to reopen talks on a Franco-British alliance. But Socialist Gouin's Cabinet colleagues strenuously objected. As torchbearers for Charles de Gaulle (who, in retirement at Marly-le-Roi, spoke of the time "quand je reviens-when I return"), the Popular Republicans (M.R.P.) held out stubbornly for the "political internationalization" of Western Germany. The Communists suspected that French, British and German Socialists were plotting another Socialist version...
Henceforth France will collaborate with Britain in all Near East matters. In return, Britain will presumably collaborate with France in the wider sphere of foreign policy, e.g., in a possible Franco-British alliance like the Franco-Russian alliance...
...League of Nations refused to use its teeth simply because the two nations which dominated the League had no will to use them. Those nations were Great Britain and France. European politicians came to believe that the League was no more than an alternate tool of the Franco-British balance of power-a belief that was ignobly confirmed when the Hoare-Laval pact, giving Mussolini a free fist in Ethiopia, put an effective end to the League's lone effort to apply not even military but economic force against an aggressor...
Sabotage. "The film represents Stalin as having been driven into Hitler's arms by the Franco-British policy of appeasement. There is no reference to the desperate efforts of France and Britain to reach a defensive alliance with Stalin in 1939. . . . Hitler's armies are shown invading Poland, not Stalin...