FRANCE MONSIEUR NO PRESIDENT CHARLES DE GAULLE'S PRESS CONFERENCES TAKE THE FORM 
OF A RITUAL BALLET . THE STAGE IS THE CRYSTAL-CHANDELIERED SALLE 
DES FETES IN THE ELYSEE PALACE, AND THE CORPS DE BALLET 
IS COMPOSED OF SOME 700 NEWSMEN CROWDED RUMP TO RUMP IN 
FLIMSY, GILT-PAINTED CHAIRS . THE PROPS ARE TV CAMERAS, LIGHTS, A 
DESK PLACED BEFORE A RASPBERRY-RED CURTAIN . ENTER LE GRAND CHARLES, 
MOVING HIS HEAD PONDEROUSLY AS HE PEERS THROUGH THE HAZE OF 
TV FLARES AND FLASH BULBS . WITH A WAVE OF THE 
HAND AND A CLEARING OF THE THROAT, DE GAULLE MAKES SOME 
PRELIMINARY REMARKS BEFORE THE QUESTIONS BEGIN . AS DE GAULLE PREPARED 
TO STAGE ANOTHER OF HIS RARE PRESS PERFORMANCES THIS WEEK, POLITICAL 
DOPESTERS WERE BETTING HE WOULD USE THE OCCASION TO GIVE A 
HAUGHTY AND RINGING NON TO CONCESSIONS FOR BRITAIN'S ENTRY INTO THE 
COMMON MARKET . HE MIGHT ALSO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO REPEAT 
IN PUBLIC WHAT HE HAS ALREADY SAID IN PRIVATE ABOUT PRESIDENT 
JOHN KENNEDY'S POLARIS OFFER LAST MONTH . AFTER KENNEDY'S NASSAU PROPOSAL, 
DE GAULLE CALLED IN HIS MINISTERS AND BECAME " MONSIEUR NO 
" TO THE WHOLE IDEA, REPORTED THE WEEKLY PARIS MATCH LAST 
WEEK . DE GAULLE DECLARED : " FRANCE CANNOT IN THE 
FUTURE RENOUNCE ITS EFFORT AND ABANDON ITS PROJECT MERELY BECAUSE WASHINGTON 
DECIDES TO PRESENT SOME PROPOSALS . . . WE CANNOT ACCEPT 
POLARIS MISSILES AND, AT THE SAME TIME, PURSUE OUR NATIONAL EFFORT 
. THEREFORE WE WILL FOLLOW OUR NATIONAL EFFORT . WE HAVE 
THE A-BOMB . WE WILL HAVE THE H-BOMB . AND, EVENTUALLY, 
WE WILL HAVE THREE-STAGE MISSILES . " DE GAULLE CONTINUED : 
" THE AMERICAN INTEREST IS NOT ALWAYS THE FRENCH INTEREST . 
CIRCUMSTANCES CHANGE . INTERESTS CAN DIVERGE . THIS WILL BE MORE 
AND MORE TRUE IN THE FUTURE, WHICH WILL GIVE EUROPE A 
GREATER AND GREATER WEIGHT, AND WHICH WILL THEREFORE CONTRIBUTE TO DIMINISHING 
THE RELATIVE WEIGHT OF THE U.S . 