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cils. He was only partially successful because
mutual assistance against German aggression.
he soon incurred the displeasure of the Krem-
A year later the Treaty of Brussels created a
lin by flatly refusing to recognize the Polish
military combination of France, the UK, and
Lublin Committee.
the Benelux countries directed against "any
For two years the Quai d'Orsay attempted
policy of aggression." The same month
to mediate between the US-UK and the USSR,
French relations with Italy were improved
aspiring to the role of a diplomatic and even
when a commercial treaty and a projected cus-
ideological bridge between the East and West.
toms union were announced. The Atlantic
As a result of the treatment France received
Pact of April 1949 represented for France the
from the USSR during the Moscow Conference
achievement of her thirty-year goal of an al-
of Foreign Ministers in April 1947, at which
liance with the US.
Foreign Minister Bidault was continually
Not all of France's external relations are a
snubbed by Molotov, France finally decided to
source of strength for her. Still regarding
cast her lot definitely on the side of the West.
Germany as a potential menace, France has
This decision was confirmed at the close of the
conducted a stern occupation, and has yielded
year, when Moscow ordered the "generalized"
only grudgingly to UK and US insistence that
strikes in France, and the French Government
Germany be rebuilt to contribute to general
took vigorous countermeasures. Franco-So-
European recovery. Relations with another
viet relations have deteriorated steadily since
neighbor-Spain-are generally unsatisfac-
then.
tory, the prevailing hostility to Franco pre-
cluding political rapprochement and military
The concurrent development of US policy on
collaboration, although a trade agreement has
European economic rehabilitation, Germany,
been signed. The war in Indochina and the
and Western security has caused France to
rebellion in Madagascar have been a military
swing into its present diplomatic support of
and financial burden, and have put France
the US.
on the defensive in the UN, where the US has
About the time-the spring of 1947-that
promoted the policy of self-determination of
antagonism between the USSR and France
peoples. France, however, views the UN-like
flared into the open, France took its first major
its predecessor League of Nations-as a possi-
step toward increasing its strength through
ble bulwark of French security, and has gen-
alliances with Western nations, by signing the
erally cooperated actively in its humanitarian
Dunkerque Treaty with the UK, providing for
work.
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