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New bonds of European security
Kurt Shillinger
Charles de Gaulle, leader of the French resistance against Nazi Germany during World War II, once mockingly claimed that he learned English to understand Winston Churchill鈥檚 French. The wartime British prime minister returned the quip when once asked if he regarded de Gaulle as a great man. 鈥淗e is selfish, he is arrogant, he believes he is the center of the world. He ... You are quite right. He is a great man.鈥澛�
鈥淭he problem for Europeans for the last 80 years is they don鈥檛 really trust each other,鈥� a London-based expert tells Colette Davidson in her story on European security today. Yet buried in the verbal jousting of two erstwhile statesmen lies a kernel of renewable affection. Today, in another time of war, France and Britain are forging new bonds in defense of shared values.聽
