The United States privileged French-German agreement over its own decolonization ideals.
Evidence
For its part, the Eisenhower administration accepted Eurafrica as a convenient means to continue to promise decolonization without taking concrete steps toward it. Despite its professed liberalism, the United States placed highest priority on an agreement between the French and West Germans, regardless of the shape it took, and was even willing to tolerate agricultural protectionism if necessary. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 644
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: US support for decolonization served its own imperial aims — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 207
Broader Connections
- US support for decolonization served its own imperial aims
#qualifies(0.82) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 207