Strongly anti-communist, he endorsed during his 1965 campaign the NATO military and nuclear alliance with the United States, to defend the "humanist and Christian West" against "communism and its Trojan horse, Gaullism". Arguing that France should reduce development aid towards its former colonies, he coined the slogan "la Corrèze passe avant le Zambèze" ("Corrèze comes before the Zambezi").
Forcefully anti-communist, he supported during his 1965 campaign the NATO military and nuclear alliance with the United States, to defend the "humanitarian and Christian West" against "communism and its Trojan horse, Gaullism". Arguing that France should decrease development aid towards its former colonies, he coined the slogan "la Corrèze precedes le Zambèze" ("Corrèze comes before the Zambezi").