title: Churchill’s Realignment
abstract: Eden continued to try and produce a coherent direction for British foreign policy that would protect Britain’s national interests. Part of this policy was to restore France to a position of strength within Europe and therefore, by association, re-establish the French Empire. Paris had been liberated in 1944 and the de Gaulle administration had been recognised by the Allies as the legitimate Provisional Government of France in October 1944. It was intended for France to be rejuvenated as a Great 
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