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...Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, said this week that French President Charles de Gaulle "is like the dog in one of La Fontaine's fables--he would rather be lean and unfettered than fat at the end of a leash...
...Hoffmann was referring to recent statements by Premier Georges Pompidou and Foreign Minister Jacques Couve de Murville, which threatened the virtual withdrawal of French forces from NATO if the controversial multilateral force (MLF) is created. MLF is strongly supported by the U.S. and West Germany, ment, said this week that French Presi...
...Gaulle's long-range policies, Hoffmann said in an interview, aim at a Europe equally independent of U.S. and Russian domination. Participation in an MLF dominated by the U.S. would necessarily weaken such a possibility, the French President feels...
...Hoffmann cautioned against overstating the French position on MLF. "DeGaulle has spoken against only the American version of this plan, which offers the Europeans a share of strategy and command decisions only at some vague time in the future...
Recent British proposals for MLF would give the European nations as well as the U.S. a veto over strategy. The decision on these, which "brings the issue of control out into the open for the first time," must first be taken by the U.S., not France, Hoffmann said...