De Gaulle, the Seducer

For some weeks after de Gaulle’s sudden break with London, Washington and NATO, public opinion showed signs of traumatic shock. Nearly everyone had assumed that Britain was going to get into the Common Market; that, whatever disputes arose, the West’s nuclear arm was not going to be fractured; that all the major Western nations were going to continue to operate within the framework of a common alliance and strategy. At his January 14 press conference, de Gaulle shattered all three of these assumptions.

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For some weeks after de Gaulle’s sudden break with London, Washington and NATO, public opinion showed signs of traumatic shock. Nearly everyone had assumed that Britain was going to get into the Common Market; that, whatever disputes arose, the West’s nuclear arm was not going to be fractured; that all the major Western nations were going to continue to operate within the framework of a common alliance and strategy. At his January 14 press conference, de Gaulle shattered all three of these assumptions.

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