România în 1964 Un raport al ambasadorului Franței la București
Romania in 1964. A Report of the Ambassador of France to Bucharest

Summary/Abstract: The report for 1964 of the French ambassador to Bucharest speaks of how Romania emerged from anonymity on the international stage, mostly owing to the spectacular developments in this country’s foreign policy. According to Jean Louis Pons, the basic element in this policy was Romania’s effort to reject the Soviet hegemony, with the ensuing tendency to draw closer to the West and the consolidation of the Gheorghiu-Dej regime at home, all this making it both possible and necessary to have a slight liberalization. The no. 1 conclusion of the French ambassador’s report is that 1964 was to be the year of Romania’s definitive breakaway from the situation of a satellite of the Soviet Union, which it had been since the end of World War II.

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