In his Memoirs de Gaulle reports that he proposed a kind of privileged partnership between their countries so that they could stand up to both the Soviet Union and United States. Not only was this as grandiose as it was vague, but since de Gaulle knew perfectly well that Churchill prioritized his close relationship with Roosevelt, one can assume that these comments, if they were made at all – and they are not registered in the British record – were made with his Memoirs in mind rather than intended as a serious proposition.
