General Charles de Gaulle, France’s second World War leader, complained prophetically of his American allies that “One day, the United States will try to be the moral authority of the entire world.”He had every reason to be fearful. President Franklin D Roosevelt looked down on him as an arrogant fantasist, and barely tolerated his place in the anti-Hitler alliance. He demanded that postwar France be divided up, and effectively become hardly more than a glorified US dependency. It was not to be, but de Gaulle’s distrust of all things American ran deep, a powerful anti-Atlanticism that divided Nato and drives...
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