Despite these signs that de Gaulle’s ideas were not fixed, for the moment French foreign policy seemed to have reached an impasse. De Gaulle, over Stuttgart, Val d’Aosta, Syria, Indo-China, had antagonized almost everyone. Oliver Harvey, the most consistently pro-Gaullist Foreign Office official, commented after the Syrian crisis: ‘De Gaulle has shown himself to be impossible. We can never have normal relations with such a man.’
