ABSTRACT
On 29 May 1943, when General de Gaulle was leaving London for Algiers, he remarked to British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden: ‘No one is more likeable than your people. I do not always think the same of your policy.’ Basically, those few words tell the story of his feelings about the UK: admiration for the British, criticism of British policy. But they are too simple to represent so complex a history, involving as it does that of the century as a whole.
