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Europe. It is sometimes simpler to deal with an enemy than a friend. What was the U.S. to do with De Gaulle, who had ruthlessly but adroitly rejected U.S. proposals for a multilateral NATO nuclear force, vetoed Britain's entry into the Common Market, and persisted with his own...
Cold Reply. But it is no mere detail that Europeans are being asked to man, and help underwrite, an expensive weapon that they will never be able to use on their own without U.S. say-so. West Germany may not mind such an arrangement, says Charles de Gaulle, since it...
Change of Tone. De Gaulle's most derisive comments were aimed at Harold Macmillan and his countrymen, who "always manage to seem so respectable." Describing the Prime Minister's talks with him at Rambouillet last December, he related: "Mr. Macmillan came to tell me we were right in...
Seven Reasons. In London, British officials produced their own minutes of the Rambouillet talks, which contained no hint that Macmillan had ever proposed a deterrent "independent of America." The Prime Minister, they said, had indeed agreed that De Gaulle should push ahead with his force de frappe, but had pointedly...
Admittedly the force de frappe is a modest operation and one that could swiftly be knocked out of the air, even when, by 1965, the French hope to have 350 planes capable of carrying atomic weapons. De Gaulle concedes that his nuclear weaponry will never match the gargantuan and lethal...