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looks to the US and to western alliances and
terms of greater US-French cooperation. One
agreements as its principal sources of
of the major points of divergence between
strength, both economic and military.
France and the US has been in the colonial
field. The French, plagued by war in Indo-
9. Relations With the United States.
china, revolt in Madagascar, and nationalism
Following 1945-46, a period which included
in French North Africa, have consistently op-
the Liberation of France when the troops of
posed the efforts of the US to promote a policy
the US were welcomed by the French popula-
in the UN favoring the orderly evolution of
tion, and also the defeat of Germany, US-
the native populations toward self-govern-
French relations entered a difficult interval
ment. France has actively cooperated, how-
which has only recently come to a close.
ever, in UN efforts to improve living conditions
Strains on a governmental level in the tradi-
on an international scale by promoting educa-
tionally cordial relations of the two countries
tion, medicine, and social welfare.
resulted from numerous causes, especially US-
Generally speaking, the French are now in
UK policy in Syria and France's exclusion from
close diplomatic support of the US. Differ-
the Yalta and Potsdam meetings. At the
ences of opinion are restricted to questions of
popular level there was some anti-US feeling
method rather than principle. The Quai
during this period. This resulted from disap-
d'Orsay, as well as a substantial majority of
pointment at the persistence, and in some cases
the population, has recognized fully that the
aggravation, of economic and political diffi-
future of French security lies very largely in
culties during the post-Liberation occupancy
the hands of the US and its willingness to
of France by US troops. The population had
supply economic and military assistance.
come to believe during the Occupation that a
bright future lay immediately beyond Libera-
10. The Atlantic Pact.
tion. This atmosphere was conducive to suc-
Following formulation by the Brussels Pact
cessful Soviet propaganda against the US, a
powers of a tentative program for US military
campaign on which extensive funds were ex-
aid, these countries moved toward the broad-
pended while US counter-information efforts
ening of their treaty into a North Atlantic
remained limited. During 1946 and part of
Pact, of which the United States would itself
1947, moreover, Communist participation in
be a member. The signing of the Atlantic
the government imposed serious limitations
Pact in April 1949 represented for France the
upon French cooperation with the US.
achievement of a thirty-year-old objective of
In 1948, however, a great improvement in
its foreign policy. Since the end of the first
US-French relations became evident. This
world war France has sought an effective mu-
improvement has stemmed from many factors,
tual aid treaty with the Western Powers, es-
of which the most important have been (1)
pecially against the threat from Germany.
the greatly increased French fear of Soviet
The guarantee of security which the Atlantic
domination and (2) growing confidence in the
Pact provides appears to have been important
aims and methods of US foreign policy. The
in increasing popular approval of the govern-
latter has been achieved not only by means of
ment's policy of close diplomatic support of
material aid to France, but also through the
the US. If followed by implementation of the
US policy of encouraging the Western Euro-
US military aid program, the Pact will consti-
pean nations to solve their own problems
tute the most significant strengthening of
through European cooperation, and, of con-
French security in France's recent history and
siderable importance, by US willingness to
will assure French cooperation with the US
compromise on the question of Germany. It
in the East-West conflict.
has been substantially furthered by the de-
velopment of an extensive information and
11. The United Nations.
publicity campaign. More recently, the con-
France's view of the United Nations, like its
ception and promulgation of the Atlantic Pact
attitude toward the League of Nations in the
has had tremendously favorable results in
1920's, is determined largely by the hope that
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