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France remained impassive. Without abrogating its League of Nations mandate, France had recognized the de facto independence of the Levant states in the dark days of 1943. Now, the Quai d'Orsay wished to buttress its position with a treaty of alliance and friendship giving France strategic rights (air fields in Syria, naval bases in The Lebanon), economic privileges (preferential tariff treatment), cultural advantages (French to be a compulsory school language). The Lebanese and Syrians are willing to compromise only on the first point...
...Churchill who firmly refused to make revisions before San Francisco-whither, as a result, France will now go as a guest, not as a sponsor. Just to make matters pikestaff-plain. Soviet Ambassador Alexander E. Bogomolov elucidated Russian realism v. French realism for Diplomat Maurice Dejean of the Quai d'Orsay: "France should not try to sing above her range...
...Quai d'Orsay the knowing gossipers said: "Gen. De Gaulle was in no mood to say yes to anything. It is far better that he said no to the invitation than no when asked for his approval of Yalta...
...Fourth despite her exclusion from Yalta. General de Gaulle, who once said that the Rhineland must be French "from one end to the other," agreed to let the Belgians share in its occupation and to have an outlet on the Rhine. Brussels was pleased with the arrangement. The Quai d'Orsay was pleased with itself: "France," said an unofficial spokesman, "is thinking again in terms of resuming her old role of supporting the smaller powers...
...Said the Quai d'Orsay: France has diplomatic obligations to Spain. The French Government had ordered all Spanish Maquis in the F.F.I, to withdraw ten miles from the Spanish border. Spanish consulates in France, occupied by Spanish Maquis, would be returned to Franco's consuls. There were reports that France and Spain would resume diplomatic relations...