France: 1940-1955

Foreword by G. D. H. Cole, XIII
Introduction, XVII

Part I - Vichy, Occupation and Resistance (1940-4)
1. French Public Sentiment during the Occupation, 3
2. Vichy and the Marshal, 15
3. The Church under Vichy, 57
4. Maurras: the "Pure" Doctrine of Vichy, 66
5. The Forgotten Admiral, 78
6. Laval : a Reassessment, 93
7. The French Nazis, 119
8. The Resistance, 133
9. The Communists, the War and the Resistance, 179

Part II - The de Gaulle Period and the Lost Battle for a "New France" (1944-5)
1. De Gaulle, the Noble Anachronism, 201
2. Was de Gaulle a Grand Bourgeois at Heart?, 208
3. The Paris Insurrection, 215
4. France at the Liberation. The CNR Charter, 220
5. The Resistance : First Signs of Frustration, 227
6. De Gaulle: East-West Dilemma and the French Army, 232
7. The Seamier Side of Paris, 1944-5, 236
8. The" Premiere Charrette", 239
9. Resistance Splits. Thorez to de Gaulle's Rescue, 243
10. The First Exit of Mendes-France, 246
11. The Prisoners' Return, 250
12. France's Precarious Balance between East and West, 253
13. The Effect of the Petain and Laval Trials, 259
14. The Communists' Ambition to be a Permanent Government Party, 263
15. The October 1945 Election, 271
16. De Gaulle Goes, 275
17. What did the French "Purge" Amount to?, 284

Part III - The Rough Road to the "West" (1946-8)
1. 1946: a Year of Uneasy Transition, 293
2. Back to "Ordinary" Government, 298
3. Tripartisme, 302
4. The Collapse of France's German Policy, 305
5. Blum, Marxism, and Washington, 311
6. Election Battles Yves Farge Cannes and Nice de Gaulle and Blum Re-emerge, 317
7. Background of the Indo-China War, 326
8. Blum Blunders into the Indo-China War, 344
9. "Ramadier Fires Reds", 348
10. Marshall's "Yes": Molotov's "No", 357
11. Three-cornered Fight: de Gaulle, Cominform, "Third Force", 362
12. Full Speed to the Rubicon but not Beyond, 368
13. The Split in the French Working-class, 380

Part IV - France in the Cold War (1948-50)
1. The Gap between Official Policy and Public Sentiment, 389
2. Heart-searching over Marshall Aid, 396
3. "Working-class Defeated", 402
4. Pax Americana, Pax Sovietica, or Neither?, 406
5. The Tragi-comedy of French Socialism, 411
6. De Gaulle goes "Thuggish", 415
7. Vichy on the Road to Rehabilitation, 418
8. France Absorbed in the Atlantic World. "Neutralism", 422
9. Towards a "Bankers' Europe"?, 429
10. Kravchenko The Communists' Great Peace Campaign, 436
11. The Bao Dai Experiment, 444
12. The "Affaire des Generaux", 454
13. The Impact of the Korean War, 470
14. Schuman Plan and "European Army", the Two Shaky Pillars of Federalism, 478

Part V - Battles Against Arabs, Communists and - Americans (1951-3)
1. The Months before the 1951 Election, 503
2. The French Political Parties and the 1951 Election, 514
3. Gloom and the "Atomic" Jitters, 544
- 1. The School Quarrel
- 2. France "the Worst Straggler"
- 3. Mendès-France as Cassandra
- 4. French Jitters over Preventive War Talk
- 5. Collier's Jolly Atom War
- 6. "This is an Era of Total Anguish"
4. The Year of Monsieur Pinay, 564
- 1. "I am Mr Consumer"
- 2. The Tunisian Flare-up
- 3. The Attempt to Suppress the CP: Ducios and the Carrier Pigeons
- 4. The Impact of the Slansky Trial. The Marty-Tillon Purge
- 5. The Decline and Fall of Pinay. Right-wing Anti-Americanism
5. The Battle over EDC begins, 597
6. Why Mendès-France Failed in 1953, 608
7. Morocco in the Hands of the He-men, 615
8. A Small Working-class Victory with Lasting Results. How High are French Wages?, 631
9. Towards Bermuda, 638
- 1. France and the Rosenberg Case
- 2. Dulles Takes Bidault for a Ride
- 3. Churchill's "You Ratify, or -"
- 4. De Gaulle: "Britain May Steal the French Empire"
- 5. Assembly Refuses to be Rushed into EDC
- 6. Churchill Prefers a Goat to the French Prime Minister

Part VI - The End of an Epoch
1. Disaster in Indo-China, 657
- 1. A Turning-point
- 2. Presidential Election
- 3. Berlin and the Odd Behaviour of M. Bidault
- 4. The "Markos Myth" and Laniel's "Cease-Fire Conditions"
- 5. Dien Bien Phu
- 6. "US Ships and A-Bombs on Way to Indo-China"
- 7. The End of Laniel
2. The "Disquieting" Mendès-France Takes Over, 676
- 1. A Dazzling Start
- 2. Tunisia: "Loyalty and no Mental Reservations"
3. Showdown on German Rearmament, 695
- 1. Brussels and the Death of EDC
- 2. The Threat of the "Empty Chair".
4. Was Mendès-France Too Good to be True?, 710
5. 1956 Postcript, 726

Appendix One: A Note on Algeria, 731
Appendix Two: The French Press from the Liberation to the Present Time, 735
List of Governments, with Principal Posts, 562-3
Bibliography, 743
Principal Abbreviations, 750
Index, 753