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tat investments . And when the U,S, gave and political competitor that it is, T ~s .
$17 billion in aid to "rehabilitate" free herself of tie need a~or an "et~Ccl~nic
postwar France, it was not out of love umbrella" held in Anglo-Saxon hands,~she ;
for France, but because if France had not labished money an3d scientific talent on, .
been saved for capitalism she would have developing hex own- A-bomb,' She reasser-
been reorganized on "Communist" statist ted sovereignty~cv~er Frend~ territory and
lines, and would have wound up as satel- air'spaee that'°shP~`had'~een in na pas3-,
ite and ally of Soviet Russia, Lion to assert in' x.949 whets SNi4~fi, NA'~O's
As for the Fxench ruling class, it never supreme military ° heed~ua~t~arsi took up
wasted a moment's time on gratitude . It resid+snce in the 1~eart of franca, ?~orst
understood U, S, capitalist motivations of all, fromi U .S, icapitali m''s iewpoint
thoroughly . And, regardless ctf,.j~u~~,,o ;~;,a~i :, -were~F~~aixce's actilons shak~:ng the rickefiy
paned to head its political executive~com- international ~on~etary system in Which
mittee, French national policy has ex-, t ` the ,~1a~;~^ax . ;~and 'tJ~,e'p+o-und atex~l ~ag"':b+acame
pressed what were believed to be French , in~tex'~aa~,~,q~al r.~ rvet ~cu~x~nuies .
ruling-class interests . ~ ~ ;~ . .Franca',,s~ .r, aAm'p~~,~an~ . :r 'has ;=' a'lx+eady been
., r ds,.g~,t ''.~ '~'~l k ~ ~~ he ' ~uLu'innb , ~ "The cT+~ll ar's
FRCM COMPLIANT ALLY TO COMPETING FOE x,~.t-r~~?~~~' :~~-,~~ =~rfa~tus ab~s'i>lv~!~3',,,U»S ., n~pitalism
For many postwax years, Fxench capital- .,:, ;~±~ .,-tM~?} z~e'a~d :f4~' so ~marracge~`3ts~ economic' af-
ism relied so heavily on U,S, aid that i'h~,i~~freir,s~~,as ,'~'c ~`l mit~ate ~kbe def~+~3ts i~ti'in-
found it expedient to collaborate on po-,, . : xert~~t~.ana'1 `payments .tbrat~ i't incurred
olicy . These were the early years of ,, yea~;~, .ra~ter w'year . That~` .~.a,' m'stead''of
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,4 : ., baviz~ tp use 'the gold fxb~n Foit 'Knox to
Even after the Euxopean Common Market was .;pay .q~ff ,the defi~pits, U;S' ;.'%~capi~talismof
organized, France was a more or less com-`., :used iz~fla~:ed dollars . ~irf' effect, ; it
pliant ally . Sut, as the Common Market bought francs with dollars~ "'an~ used 'the ^
solidified, French capitalism began to , .francs to buiy up 1~ucrative p~~nch iii~idusexperience
the stimulating advantages of 3
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a market that expanded 'to unprecedented
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scope . Gzadually, Fxance's economic and
military dependence on U .S,., capitalism
~c~iminished and finally disappeared. It ~ ~.,
was then that her natural,'pap3aalist . rolg ~""" ~
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;By :~now, French capitalism wfflded, no~E
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but also, i,n some instances, tii~ weight
of alf si c df 'the ~ E iropean ~, Comn bn, ;Martcet
nations . This~'~she was ablr~` to do because
the Treaty of Rome, ~ih ch~ cxeated ; . 'the
Common' Market, provided for '~ 'v2tcS,' . ~ As
i.s~' well :know, . .:.France 'uti~,i'zed `~Cl e~ veto
t~x block I3r`itain's entry -f~into the Common
Market . 5Yre did this not, as it is gen-
exalhy supposed ; because de Gauile was t., ~, " ;
hostile to Angla-Saxons, but because F3xi-
ta n was seen : as a jixnior partner .in' an
Ang~.o-Saxon ; ; . a:mper'~.al'is~h . ; '~o l~t~~ hei iri~
would be to give U,S, ~ capitalism a stxa-'
task ^ agent in Common Market :councils, .. .
For vaxiaaxs- ;reasons,wtl~' st'~would~~iave been
in ; conflict with Fr~ecich cap~tal at 'Xnter-
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F~tANCE REASSERTS SOVEREIGNTY
. ;DeyGaulle's Fran+cev very logically began .
tc~ treat ; U,S,, capitalism''as
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