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De Gaulle, Israel and the Jews By Raymond Aron

Praeger, $5.95 Raymond Aron is, very properly, among the most respected of modern French political writers. During the “events” of May-June 1968, he kept his head when all about were losing theirs; as a consequence, left-wing printers— and newspapers afraid of their printers —refused to publish what he wrote. General de Gaulle is, by any standard, one of the great men, and certainly the greatest Frenchman, of our time. And de Gaulle’s alleged antisemitism, or, to be more precise, his switch of policy from backing Israel to apparently backing the Arabs, must surely rank among the more perplexing and intriguing aberrations of recent history.

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De Gaulle, Israel and the Jews By Raymond Aron

Praeger, $5.95 Raymond Aron is, very properly, among the most respected of modern French political writers. During the “events” of May-June 1968, he kept his head when all about were losing theirs; as a consequence, left-wing printers— and newspapers afraid of their printers —refused to publish what he wrote. General de Gaulle is, by any standard, one of the great men, and certainly the greatest Frenchman, of our time. And de Gaulle’s alleged antisemitism, or, to be more precise, his switch of policy from backing Israel to apparently backing the Arabs, must surely rank among the more perplexing and intriguing aberrations of recent history.