FRANCE ENCORE, NON IN A 20-MINUTE TV SPEECH LAST WEEK, CHARLES DE 
GAULLE MADE HIS FIRST PUBLIC ADDRESS SINCE THE HISTORIC JAN . 
PRESS CONFERENCE AT WHICH HE BARRED BRITAIN FROM EUROPE . AS 
THE BAROQUE PARAGRAPHS UNFOLDED, IT BECAME PLAIN THAT FRANCE'S PRESIDENT HAD 
NOT RETREATED FROM THE POLICIES THAT HAVE DIVIDED THE WESTERN ALLIANCE 
AND HALTED THE INTEGRATION OF EUROPE IN THE THREE MONTHS SINCE 
. HIS VIEWS ON KEY ISSUES . . .EUROPE . POLITICAL 
INTEGRATION OF EUROPE WOULD " INEVITABLY END IN FOREIGN DOMINATION " 
OF THE CONTINENT . IT WOULD, IN ANY CASE, BE " 
INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC " 
TO SURRENDER SOVEREIGNTY TO A SUPRANATIONAL PARLIAMENT, WHICH DE GAULLE DISDAINFULLY 
LIKED TO AN " AREOPAGUS, " THE SUPREME COURT OF ANCIENT 
ATHENS . " IN SHORT, IT SEEMS TO US ESSENTIAL THAT 
EUROPE SHOULD BE EUROPE AND FRANCE, FRANCE . " . ENGLAND 
. WITH ALL DUE RESPECT TO " THE GREAT ENGLISH PEOPLE, 
" DE GAULLE FIRMLY INSISTED THAT / UNION " OF EUROPE, 
MEANING APPARENTLY THE GAULLIST PROPOSAL FOR CLOSER TIES BETWEEN GOVERNMENTS, CANNOT 
WAIT FOR BRITAIN . " ONE DAY, PERHAPS, " ENGLAND WILL 
BE ADMITTED TO EUROPE AFTER IT HAS " DETACHED ITSELF " 
FROM ITS TIES WITH THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE U.S . .THE 
WESTERN ALLIANCE . THE ALLIANCE IS " INDISPENSABLE SO LONG AS 
THE THREATS AND AMBITIONS OF THE SOVIETS CONTINUE . " WHILE 
" CONJUGATING " ITS DEFENSE WITH NATO, HOWEVER, FRANCE " INTENDS 
TO REMAIN ITS OWN MASTER . " .NUCLEAR INDEPENDENCE . FRANCE'S 
FORCE DE FRAPPE IS ESSENTIAL TO " DISSUADE " WOULDBE AGGRESSORS 
AND " CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEFENSE OF ITS ALLIES, INCLUDING WHO 
KNOWS ? AMERICA . " FOR THOUGH THE AMERICANS " ARE 
OUR GOOD ALLIES, AS WE ARE THEIRS, " IN THE EVENT 
OF NUCLEAR WAR THERE IS " IMMENSE AND INEVITABLE UNCERTAINTY " 
WHETHER RUSSIA AND THE U.S . WOULD USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS AT 
ALL, OR ONLY IN EUROPE, OR WHETHER THE TWO " CHAMPIONS 
" MIGHT NOT " HURL DEATH RECIPROCALLY INTO EACH OTHERS' VITALS 
. " CRITICS WHO SAY FRANCE'S DETERRENT IS USELESS OR TOO 
EXPENSIVE ARE IN " THE SAME CATEGORY OF LAGGARDS AND SCATTERBRAINS 
WHO CRIED, " NO HEAVY ARTILLERY' UNTIL 1914, " AND BEFORE 
1939 " CRIED, " NO ARMORED CORPS ! NO FIGHTER AIRCRAFT 
! " ' AS JOURNALISTS LIKE TO SAY, THERE WASN'T VERY 
MUCH THAT WAS " NEW " IN THE SPEECH . BUT 
THERE WEREN'T ANY NEW OBSTACLES EITHER . 