Abstract

Almost a third of a century ago, General Charles de Gaulle, towering over both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall, delivered a paean of praise to Britain's singular way of governing herself, as fulsome as it was unexpected, not least to those like the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, who were ever mindful that, as he put it, the French Head of State was 'always remembering the insults which he conceives were put upon him by Churchill during the war'.' That day, however, de Gaulle lauded Britain's 'outstanding role in the midst of the storm' of the second world war and linked it

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