How de Gaulle defeated the Vichyite tendency in the United States

From: The Spectator | Date: June 7, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Last week was the week when plenty of Britons, though not their government, seemed to place themselves on guard against M. Giscard's constitution. It was appropriate, then, that it was also the 60th anniversary of one of the greatest among the many crises in the career of the first Eurosccptic.

Sixty years ago last week he began the process by which he saw off an American attempt to destroy him. Had the attempt succeeded, the history of postwar France would have been different. There would, among other things, have been a civil war between Gaullists and other resistants on the one hand, and ...

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