soon after returning from Quebec, de Gaulle poured out all his bile: Do you think it mattered to me not going to Ottawa? … There would have been all those toasts to the Queen of England! I would rather die than go to Canada and toast the Queen of England … I was relieved when they offered me the pretext to leave … All that will give lots of copy to the worthless and supine press under the heel of the Americans, the Israelis and all the others.
