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Kennedy Waited Six Months to Do
Extraordinary Job on Gen. De Gaulle
By James Marlow
Associated Press News Anaylst
WASHINGTON — President
Kennedy waited six months until
he got to Europe to do an extra- !
ordinary job on French President
Charles De Gaulle for the damage
he had caused the Western Alli
ance.
In a rough, deliberately planned j
major policy speech last Tuesday
at Frankfurt, Germany, Kennedy,
with all Europe listening, ripped !
into De Gaulle for suggesting
America might run out on its
allies in case of attack.
This was probably the harshest
criticisms — even though Kennedy ;
did not mention De Gaulle by j
name — that any U.S. President
has made on an allied leader since '
the war.
This made the relationship be
tween the two men frigid. It was
already cold. De Gaulle pointedly
had not asked Kennedy to stop
off in France on his trip that takes
in West Germany, Ireland, Britain
and Italy.
an tne aays in tne year on
which he could have belittled the
United States, De Gaulle picked
on the worst one, last Jan. 14, the
day Kennedy delivered his state
of the union message to Congress.
That was an extremely sunny,
optimistic Kennedy message which
said: “How fares the grand alli
ance? Free Europe is entering into
a new phase of its long and brilli
ant history.”
De Gaulle made the words look
ludicrous before Kennedy got them
out of his mouth. The Frenchman
held a news conference just a lew
hours before Kennedy spoke. The
timing was no accident. He holds
few such conferences.
And, when he does, the questions
have to be submitted beforehand.
I In summary, De Gaulle did these
four things:
1. He rejected this country’s
proposal for a multi-national nu
clear force and proclaimed his de
termination to build a separate
French nuclear force.
This was exactly what Kennedy
didn’t want. It meant one more
nuclear power in the world and
would be encouragement to other
countries to do the same.
2. He slammed Europe’s Com
mon Market door in Britain’s face,
treating his British ally as an
outsider.
This gummed up American
British hopes for a united Euro
pean economic effort and weaken
ed both economic and political
unity among the allies.
3. He said France opposed a
Common Market “under American
leadership and domination.”
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This was a slap in the face. It
galled the United States, which re
sented the suggestion it was try
ing to run Europe.
4. He complained that while the
United States talked of a multi
national NATO nuclear force for
Europe, that force would remain
under U.S. control.
He hit the mark there. Under
law passed by Congress, this gov
ernment must retain full control
of nuclear weapons , deciding
whether or not to use them.
On April 19 De Gaulle kicked
the United States again by suggest
ing France could not be sure of
the intentions of its allies, much
less of its enemies.
In short, from the American
view, he had endangered the whole
alliance.
Against this background it is
understandable why Kennedy on
bis present European trip has re
peatedly assured the allies the
United States would defend Eu
rope from attack even if it meant
attack on the United States.
He said Tuesday that “the Unit
ed States will risk its cities to de
fend yours because we need your
freedom to protect ours.”
But he went far beyond that by
implying De Gaulle was playing
into Soviet hands by casting doubt
on the alliance and American in
tentions.
He said: “Those who would cast
doubt on our pledge — those who
would separate Europe from
America or split one ally from an
other — would only give aid and
comfort to the men who make
themselves our adversaries and
welcome any Western disarray.”
He called separate “national de
terrents” — meaning De Gaulle’s
plans for a nuclear force separate
from NATO’s — turning “the
dock back."
He went beyond the political and
military and called again in most
earnest terms for the kind of
European economic unity De
Gaulle has prevented.
Any former coziness in the
Kennedy-De Gaulle relationship is
gone.
EMBARGO EXPORT OF SUGAR
WASHINGTON M — The Com
merce Department embargoed ex
ports of beet and cane sugar yes
terday to prevent en excessive
drain on U.S. sugar supplies.
The world price of sugar is 2
cents above the U.S. market.
The Commerce Department’s
Bureau of International Commerce
said the United States normally
exports about 5,000 metric tons a
year. The bureau calls this a rel
atively small amount.
The Department of Agriculture
has said there is an adequate sup
ply of sugar to meet domestic re
quirements.
The price of sugar hit a record
high before that reassurance from
the Department of Agriculture. It
dropped considerably afterward.
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