ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the interpretation of the person and the mental processes of General de Gaulle prompted the author to predict the diplomatic slide out of neutrality and into solidarity with the Arab countries and the Soviet Union. In spite of everything, the diplomatic games the President of the Republic has been indulging in, his indifference to ideologies and to countries' internal regimes, his switching of alliances, seem to the author anachronistic. Ever since the Middle East crisis began, the author had had the feeling that the President of the Republic would be led by the logic of his diplomacy to join the Soviet camp. Opinion both in France and outside will in the end grasp the least glorious aspect of this sort of diplomacy. Nothing could be more normal than that General de Gaulle should condemn the war in Vietnam, which is condemned by the vast majority of European opinion.
