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On 18 November 1948, J. Foster Dulles noted before the American Club in Paris that the Americans were more ‘European’ than the Europeans.1 This remark epitomises a paradox that, with hindsight causes no surprise but that at the time, greatly puzzled the English experts: ‘One of the curious features of current foreign policy’, concluded a study published by Chatham House in 1952, ‘is the passionate encouragements given by the Americans to a European integration in which some of its continental advocates see a counterbalance to the United States’.
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J. Chauvel, Commentaire. De Berne à Paris: 1952–1962, Fayard, 1973, p. 24.
C. L. Sulzberger, Dans le tourbillon de l’histoire, Albin Michel, 1971, p. 442.
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Melandri, P. (1995). The United States and the Process of European Integration. In: Varsori, A. (eds) Europe 1945–1990s. Southampton Studies in International Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23689-3_9
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