Author: Eleanor Holdsworth

In 1966, French President Charles de Gaulle announced in a letter to President Lyndon Johnson that France would be withdrawing from NATO’s integrated military command structure. In a very polite manner, de Gaulle wrote to Johnson that “France [was] determined

As tensions accelerated the United States and the USSR, both rivals initially overlooked France. In 1950, French Minister Robert Schuman proposed an economic integration plan between French, Germany, and the three Benelux countries, which came to be called the European