l'Image Publique d'un Homme Secret: Michel Jobert et la Diploma Tie Française by MaryKathleen WeedReview by: Fritz SternForeign Affairs, Vol. 66, No. 5 (Summer, 1988), p. 1128Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20043625 .

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1128 FOREIGN AFFAIRS

A misleading title for a book that focuses primarily on American attitudes toward the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from wartime assessments to the

early 1980s, with particular emphasis on American judgments on Eurocom munism. Based on published sources and interviews with people who often demanded anonymity, the book is full of damaging, unsubstantiated re marks?about the relations of the PCI to the Red Brigades, for instance?

including this allegation apparently concerning the Aldo Moro kidnapping: "and on at least one occasion, [Enrico] Berlinguer learned something quite interesting about the Red Brigades, but failed to communicate it to Italian authorities." The book offers some shrewd observations, but reads like a concealed polemic against the American intellectual establishment and its

"remarkably uncritical treatment" of Eurocommunism?a characterization

Ledeen substantiates by relating that, when Berlinguer aide Sergio Segre was denied a visa in 1976, "members of the Council on Foreign Relations,

along with Kissinger's former colleagues at Harvard University, roundly denounced the action . . . . "

All members of the Council? All colleagues at Harvard? The hero of the book is Henry Kissinger, whose version of

realpolitik deserves a better assessment than this flawed work.

L'IMAGE PUBLIQUE D'UN HOMME SECRET: MICHEL JOBERT ET LA DIPLOMATIE FRAN?AISE. By Mary Kathleen Weed. Paris: Editions Fernand Lanore, 1988, 282 pp. Fr. 90.

A revised Paris doctoral thesis, based heavily on interviews with Jobert and his colleagues, both in France and abroad. Frenchman from Morocco, a graduate of the ?cole Nationale d'Administration, Jobert served French

premiers in various functions, most notably, of course, as Pompidou's foreign minister from 1973 to 1974. The book concentrates on the dramatic events of the early 1970s. During the October war of 1973 he gained worldwide attention with his battles with Henry Kissinger (the author notes that the two men resemble each other in some ways) and with American

policies. At that time he gained the sobriquet "Jobert of Arabia." From 1981 to 1983, he was Mitterrand's minister for foreign trade. An informed,

sympathetic account of a

complex and very private person, an ambitious,

nonconformist political actor and reformer, and a novelist.

BORN GUILTY: CHILDREN OF NAZI FAMILIES. By Peter Sichrovsky. New York: Basic Books, 1988, 178 pp. $17.95.

Interviews with children of Nazi criminals: different reactions to the?

usually late and accidental?discovery of parental culpability and absence

of remorse. "My generation is the generation of the bad conscience."

Responses range from filial anger to filial loyalty, but almost always tell of a disturbed and often uncomprehending existence of permanent unease.

Poignant, minor raw material concerning some of the most troublesome issues of the Nazi past.

A MAN OF INFLUENCE: THE EXTRAORDINARY CAREER OF S. G. WARBURG. By Jacques Attali. Washington: Adler & Adler, 1987, 444 pp. $22.50.

Siegmund Warburg, scion of an old banking family, an early exile from Hitler living in London, became a preeminent presence in international

banking in the post-1945 world. Jacques Attali, writer and adviser-attendant to President Mitterrand, has produced a superficial account of an austerely

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