NEWS ANALYSIS. The US turnaround in favor of Russia in the war in Ukraine echoes the French leader's words from back in 1959.

Talk of Europe’s rearmament — and autonomy — leads the Times’ Ross Douthat to suggest that it’s time to “revisit Charles de Gaulle’s bid ... in terms of nuclear weaponry, during the Cold War. De ...

Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt found Charles de Gaulle admirable and infuriating in equal measure, and readers may ...

On February 21, 1966, in a solemn press conference at the Elysée Palace, President Charles de Gaulle announced ... Throughout the Cold War, these U.S. bases in Europe were the backbone of Western ...

Charles de Gaulle’s insistence on French power and autonomy is being cited widely in France; one politician demanded that an America on “the side of the tyrants” return the Statue of Liberty.

Charles de Gaulle ... He dismissed de Gaulle as an irritation with no democratic credentials. His opinion did not change when the US entered the war in December 1941. Indeed, Roosevelt believed ...

General Charles de Gaulle was the key figure of the French Resistance during WWII and the founder of the Fifth Republic in France after the war. “We remember General de Gaulle as the author of ...