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Back to Secrecy. Macmillan was responding not just to domestic pressure but to a mood that had swept a large part of the free world. French Premier Félix Gaillard endorsed the idea. India's Nehru and Pakistan's President Iskander Mirza quickly echoed him. Norway's Premier
Pleas in Private. But for most of his stay in Paris, the President was immersed in the problems of the present. He had already conferred privately with British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. France's Felix Gaillard had called to tell the President that practically every Frenchman is convinced that the U.S. has covert designs on North Africa, particularly on the Sahara's oil. Shocked, Ike told Gaillard emphatically that the U.S. had no intention of supplanting French interests in North Africa, or of interfering in the war in Algeria...
...would be a mistake to attempt to allay their fears by waving America's big stick in the faces of Mr. Macmillan and M. Gaillard. Rather, the U.S. must appear a bit more tractable, more the friend and less the Protector. Words, in this case, can be mightier than The Word. An open ear is often more effective than an open mouth...
...hour's consultation, he urged French Premier Felix Gaillard, apparently with some success, to take a warmer view of an American offer to put intermediate range missiles and nuclear warheads on the European front facing Soviet Russia...
France, which fears an Anglo-U.S. monopoly of nuclear weapons, will demand that control of any missile warheads based on French soil be vested in NATO rather than in the U.S. It is inadmissible, says Premier Gaillard, that some allies "should be a bit more equal than others." What the French most want is a formal reaffirmation that Algeria is included in the NATO area, plus a pledge that no NATO member will take action affecting the interests of another member without prior consultation...