France and Britain.
There will be general hope that M. Blum’s talks with British leaders have gone beyond immediate economic problems to lay at least a foundation for the renewal of the alliance betw&en Britain and France. Such an alliance would be widely welcomed in both countries. That it has not been'concluded earlier is due to faults on both sides, but principally, perhaps, to the extreme nationalism which was a proud French people’s reaction to defea. and humiliation in 1940. Since the war, however, France and Britain, despite temporary differences over such matters as the presence of British troops in the Levant, which provoked disproportionate bitterness, have been moving steadily towards an accord. At the end of 1945, General de Gaulle announced that France’s foreign policy, “already anchored on the treaty with Russia,” envisaged 'accord with England, and in April last year, M. Gouin, then Prime Minister, said that France must seek an alliance with Britain “ as a complement to her alliance with the Soviet Union.”—Sydney Morning Herald,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 12 February 1947, Page 6
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