Cross Channel Currents: 100 Years of the Entente CordialeRichard Mayne, Douglas Johnson, Robert Tombs Cross Channel Currents explores the understandings and misunderstandings that make up the Entente Cordiale - the hundred-year relationship between Britain and France, as well as the everyday common interests and shared pleasures that give it substance. Contributors include the late Roy Jenkins, in a witty and personal view of Winston Churchill's relationship with France; Pierre Messmer, a companion of Charles de Gaulle during World War II and later his prime minister; former Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, who remembers the historic meeting of Edward Heath and Georges Pompidou; Hubert Vedrine, a former French foreign minister, on the difficulties of cross-Channel relations; and their successors Dominique de Villepin and Jack Straw. |
Contents
John Keiger | 10 |
The German Threat | 23 |
Christopher Andrew and Paul Vallet | 32 |
The 1920s | 71 |
The 1930s | 79 |
Raphaële UlrichPier | 86 |
Roy Jenkins | 98 |
De Gaulle and Britain | 109 |
John Newhouse | 190 |
André Fontaine | 201 |
Miles Kington | 207 |
JeanPierre Angremy | 218 |
A French Shrine in Britain | 229 |
Hubert Védrine | 240 |
H Bell | 255 |
Danièle Joly | 262 |
PaulMarie de La Gorce | 115 |
François Kersaudy | 121 |
H Roderick Kedward | 132 |
Two Colonial Powers | 141 |
France and Britain Decolonise | 143 |
Jean Monnet | 161 |
JeanRené Bernard | 175 |
Mitterrand Thatcher and the Berlin Wall | 181 |
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