Each was treated to a lecture on de Gaulle’s philosophy of history. Macmillan was told that ‘old Russia will bury the current regime’ and that Soviet expansionism had more to do with the tradition of the tsars than with Communism.43 Dulles, launching into a lecture on the dangers of international Communism, was startled to be told that when the Soviets talked about ‘the Party’ to justify their policies it was ‘a bit like you talking of “the Congress”’.44
