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").
As a fervently anti-communist, he advocated during his 1965 campaign for the NATO military and nuclear alliance with the United States to protect the "humanitarian and Christian West" from communism and Gaullism. He also suggested reducing French aid to its former colonies, coining the phrase "Corrèze takes precedence over Zambezi".