Dining on Crow

Dining on Crow à la Française

To be accepted into the Socialist Cabinet, the Communists not only had to pledge themselves to support Mitterrand's program and pace, but they had to disavow a number of their basic foreign policy positions. Key quotes from the agreement with the Socialists:

> The two parties are resolved to promote the new policies that the French people chose when they elected François Mitterrand to the presidency of the Republic. They will do so in the National Assembly within the newly constituted majority. They will do so in the government with...

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