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Historians of the Cold War, argues William Hitchcock, have too often overlooked the part that European nations played in shaping the post-World War II international system. In particular, France, a country beset by economic difficulties and political instability in the aftermath of the war, has been given short shrift.With this book, Hitchcock restores France to the narrative of Cold War history and illuminates its central role in the reconstruction of Europe. Drawing on a wide array of evidence from French, American, and British archives, he shows that France constructed a coherent national strategy for domestic and international recovery and pursued that strategy with tenacity and effectiveness in the first postwar decade. This once-occupied nation played a vital part in the occupation and administration of Germany, framed the key institutions of the new Europe, helped forge the NATO alliance, and engineered an astonishing economic recovery. In the process, France successfully contested American leadership in Europe and used its position as a key Cold War ally to extract concessions from Washington on a wide range of economic and security issues.

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title France Restored Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in - photo 1
title:France Restored : Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 New Cold War History
author:Hitchcock, William I.
publisher:University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin:0807824283
print isbn13:9780807824283
ebook isbn13:9780807866801
language:English
subjectFrance--Foreign relations--1945- , France--Foreign relations--Germany, Germany--Foreign relations--France, Reconstruction (1939-1951)--France, Political leadership--France, World politics--1945-1955, Peaceful change (International relations)
publication date:1998
lcc:DC404.H53 1998eb
ddc:327.44
subject:France--Foreign relations--1945- , France--Foreign relations--Germany, Germany--Foreign relations--France, Reconstruction (1939-1951)--France, Political leadership--France, World politics--1945-1955, Peaceful change (International relations)
Page i
France Restored
Page ii
THE NEW COLD WAR HISTORY
John Lewis Gaddis, editor
Page iii
France Restored
Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 19441954
William I. Hitchcock
Foreword by John Lewis Gaddis
Page iv 1998 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Set - photo 2
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1998 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Set in Janson type by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.
Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for
permanence and durability of the Committee on
Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the
Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hitchcock, William I.
France restored : Cold War diplomacy and the quest
for leadership in Europe, 19441954 / by William I.
Hitchcock.
p. cm. (The new Cold War history)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2428-3 (cloth: alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8078-4747-x (pbk.: alk. paper)
1. FranceForeign relations1945- 2. FranceForeign
relationsGermany. 3. GermanyForeign
relationsFrance. 4. Reconstruction (19391951)
France. 5. Political leadershipFrance. 6. World
politics19451955. 7. Peaceful change
(International relations)
I. Title. II. Series.
DC404.H53 1998 97-51123
327.44dc21 CIP
A portion of this work appeared earlier, in somewhat
different form, as "France, the Western Alliance,
and the Origins of the Schuman Plan, 19481950,"
Diplomatic History 21, no. 4 (Fall 1997): 60330, and
is reprinted here with permission of Blackwell
Publishers.
02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1
Page v
FOR DAVID AND LEE HITCHCOCK
Page vii
Contents
Foreword by John Lewis Gaddis
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Abbreviations
xiii
Introduction
1
Chapter 1
The Founding of the Fourth Republic and the Conditions for French Recovery
12
Chapter 2
The Limits of Independence, 19441947
41
Chapter 3
No Longer a Great Power
72
Chapter 4
The Hard Road to Franco-German Rapprochement, 19481950
99
Chapter 5
Sound and Fury: The Debate Over German Rearmament
133
Chapter 6
The European Defense Community and French National Strategy
169
Conclusion
203
Notes
211
Bibliography
259
Index
281

Page viii
Tables & Map
Tables
1. France's Balance of Payments, 19441949
65
2. Franc Zone Deficits with Dollar Zone, 19451949
66
3. Average Annual Growth in Gross Domestic Product, 19491970
206
4. American Aid to France, 19451952
207

Map
Germany under Occupation
47

Page ix
Foreword
In the writing of history, much depends upon angles of vision. The Cold War as seen from Washington and London has long been a familiar story, and with the availability of new materials we are getting some sense of how it looked from Moscow and Beijing as well. The view from Paris, though, has always been indistinct. To the extent that historians have dealt with it at all, they have done so in such a way as to portray the French as passive and unsure of themselves, buffeted by geopolitical forces beyond their control. Feeble, irresolute, and shortsighted, the Fourth Republic, we have been led to believe, was not a great power but a power vacuum. Few inside or outside France regretted its demise when General Charles de Gaulle killed it off in 1958; even fewer historians have seen it as playing any significant role in the early history of the Cold War.
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