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Another Kissinger favorite, surprisingly enough, is French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, who has been the Secretary's most acerbic critic in European assemblies. Kissinger's superlatives, though, are saved for Chinese Premier Chou Enlai, whom he describes as "the greatest statesman...
Many diplomats worry that Kissinger is using the European nations as pawns in what French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert calls the U.S. "adversary-partnership" relationship with the Soviet Union. Indeed, some Europeans are now convinced that the latest diplomatic crisis was deliberately staged by Kissinger to forestall the creation of a potential rival to the U.S.-U.S.S.R. condominium-namely a united Europe...
...fact that 300,000 Americans are in Europe primarily to act as an advance guard for U.S. defense. American forces are not in Europe out of charity: the Pentagon would clearly prefer that Berlin be the battleground in a potential encounter with the Soviet Union rather than Boston. Says Jobert: "In all frankness, if it is in the interest of the U.S. to remain in Europe, it will remain here. If it is not in its interest, it will leave...
...allies was all over Washington-and, worse, all over Europe. Foreign news agencies and embassies scurried to obtain accurate texts. By the time that the State Department issued a somewhat laundered transcript of the talk, the damage had been done. Europe was stunned. Said French Foreign Minister Michel Jobert, who later in the week accompanied President Georges Pompidou on a state visit to the Soviet Union: "Kissinger does not understand Europe." In Bonn, a ranking German official complained: "Now we have a cold war between America and Europe." A Belgian official advised Europe to "try to behave, publicly at least...
...sick man of Europe any more. Since 1958 we have had real leadership under General de Gaulle and President Pompidou. You forgot to say that the Nine had agreed upon the French position toward Kissinger's proposals. It turned out differently in Washington, and only Mr. Jobert represented the Community's former decisions. Can you call nationalistic an attitude respecting the agreements held among nine nations? France does not want the Community to become a U.S. satellite. It is David defending his people against Goliath...