Abstract
The first source is an article published the January 18th 1963 in a newspaper entitled The Guardian. This article was written by Darsie Gillie who is a journalist, and it is entitled Why General de Gaulle slammed the door, Britain's threat to European equality with America. It's destining to historians and pupils.
The second source is a caricature representing de Gaulle's mind, it was also published in The Guardian on Friday May 18th 1963. This picture was drawn by David Low and it's entitled On De Gaulle's mind, on it, we can spot The French President Charles de Gaulle, there are also the German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the US President Fitzgerald Kennedy and finally the British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan.
The first document explains why the General de Gaulle refused to integrate the United Kingdom in the European Economic Community. By the EEC, the French president wanted to create an organisation which could be sufficiently important to be an equal to the United States, and if de Gaulle refused to insert the UK in the EEC, it's because he didn't want that the European Community became an instrument of the US rather than an equal partnership. Therefore, in his point of view, if England wanted to be admitting in the EEC they had to stop or to restrict their "special relationship" which they had with the USA, because with this link with the US, Britain was a threat to European equality with America.
