 | 65. Bloch-Lainé,
Profession,
164.
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| 66. Ibid., 1067.
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| 67. Girault, ''The French Decision-Makers and Their Perception of French Power in 1948." Margairaz has done the best work on this "mental conversion;" see
L'état, les finances et l'écnomie
.
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| 1. On the reading of history by American officials, see Gaddis,
The United States and the Origins of the Cold War,
1823; and for a fresh look at the issue, Harper,
American Visions of Europe
. Richard Gardner covers the financial issues thoroughly in
Sterling-Dollar Diplomacy in Current Perspective
. Kuklick,
American Policy and the Division of Germany,
has seen the American quest for multilateralism as bringing about the division of Europe. A still more critical reading of American objectives may be found in Kolko,
The Politics of War
.
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| 2. Or so, at least, was the information of Jefferson Caffery, the American ambassador to France (Caffery to State, February 13, 1945,
FRUS, 1945,
4: 674).
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| 3. DePorte has carefully analyzed de Gaulle's thinking in this period in
De Gaulle's Foreign Policy,
esp. chap. 4; see also Young,
France, the Cold War, and the Western Alliance,
3657; de Gaulle,
Memoires de guerre,
3: 13049, 16771, 18195; and
FRUS, 1945,
4: 661795.
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| 4. Bidault gave a detailed interview as early as November 2, 1944, to the London
Sunday Times
on foreign policy, and was in contact with Caffery about French intentions (January 30, 1945,
FRUS, 1945,
4: 667). French ambassador to Britain René Massigli discussed French intentions with the U.S. ambassador there, John Winant (February 8, 1945,
FRUS,
1945, 3: 182). A briefing book paper prepared for Potsdam, dated June 23, 1945, recounted the various public and private statements of French leaders on German policy:
FRUS, Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), 1945,
1: 59395.
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| 5. De Gaulle,
Discours et messages,
press conference, January 25, 1945, 1: 504. De Gaulle's intentions are spelled out in no uncertain terms in his instructions to de Lattre, in de Gaulle,
Lettres, notes et carnets: juin 1943-mai 1945,
404, 426.
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| 6. De Gaulle,
Discours et messages,
radio message, February 5, 1945, 1: 518.
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| 7. De Gaulle,
Mémoires de guerre,
3: 87. For a complete account of the debate at Yalta on the issue of a French zone of occupation, toward which Churchill was favorable and Roosevelt and Stalin rather cool, see Sharp,
The Wartime Alliance and the Zonal Division of Germany,
10119. France's zone, with its poor communications links and lack of industry, was recognized by the French Foreign Ministry as virtually useless from an economic or military point of view. See
Note sur l' administration francaise en Allemagne,
August 8, 1945, Bidault Papers, AN, 457 AP, box 60.
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| 8. Memo from the Office of Economic and Financial Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, February 7, 1945, Bidault Papers, AN, 457 AP, box 60.
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