De Gaulle, les Français et L'Europe by Danielle Bahu-LeyserReview by: Fritz SternForeign Affairs, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Fall, 1981), p. 210Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20041039 .

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210 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

neo-liberal managed economy. Kuisel, an American historian of France,

emphasizes the gradual acceptance of central planning and state management, beginning with the economic imperatives of World War I and taking hold after the impetus of defeat in World War II. A judicious account that sees the ultimate reason for France's renewal in changes in men's minds, in a national desire to overcome backwardness in order to compete with other resurgent capitalist economies. It is ironic that this account of what is essentially a success story should appear just as France is entering a new and volatile economic stage.

DE GAULLE, LES FRAN?AIS ET L'EUROPE. By Danielle Bahu-Leyser. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1981, 259 pp.

This study, originally a doctoral thesis and based on extensive research, examines the great popular support of de Gaulle's policies vis-?-vis Europe, despite the opposition of major institutions, such as parties and journals. Another useful study on how the General promoted his policies, both by force of argument and by a judgment of what would appeal to French real and

perceived interests.

THE RELUCTANT ALLY: FRANCE AND ATLANTIC SECURITY. By Michael M. Harrison. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1981, 304 pp. $24.00.

An American political scientist argues that the Gaullist version of modified

independence?to which he is sympathetic?has gradually won for itself a consensus in France itself and that the trend toward a more pluralist Alliance in the 1970s has approximated some of de Gaulle's aims. A useful study that ends with the initial Western response to the invasion of Afghanistan but

basically reflects a time when d?tente characterized the climate and when inter-Allied conflicts over economic issues were less ominous.

UNE COURSE SANS RETOUR. By Pascal Fontaine. Lausanne: Founda tion Jean Monnet Pour L'Europe, 1981, 149 pp.

A passionate Europeanist and follower of Jean Monnet pleads for an

independent European defense effort.

FROM THE ASHES OF DISGRACE: A JOURNAL FROM GERMANY, 1945-1955. By Hans Speier. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981,336 pp. $20.00.

A well-known American social scientist, born and educated in pre-Hitler Germany, publishes his memorabilia from the first decade after Germany's defeat. The records of his impressions and conversations attest to a sensitive

observer, amazed at the sheer resiliency of people, at life asserting itself amid

ruins. There is significant commentary on the style of the American presence as well.

AGAINST TWO EVILS. By Hans von Herwarth with S. Frederick Starr. New York: Rawson, Wade, 1981, 318 pp. $13.95.

A most readable autobiographical account of a German diplomat in

Moscow in the 1930s, turned officer during the war. He had sympathy for

neither evil?Nazism nor communism?and understood how much the two

systems converged. As an anti-Nazi, he drew close to the military resistance

against Hitler. A book of adventure rather than analysis, but full of interesting historic details and aper?us.

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