Andy Lopata

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One recurring source of irritation was the requirement to submit his speeches to the BBC for approval twelve hours before they went on air. Sometimes de Gaulle ignored this rule and had to be called to order. He would retaliate by threatening to stop Free French broadcasts. But as one British official noted, the prospect could ‘be faced with equanimity’ since this would harm no one more than de Gaulle himself.61 Schumann, who spoke on the radio more often than de Gaulle, circumvented the censorship issue by becoming friendly with the two censors he had to work with – but this was not de ...more
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
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