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Nevertheless, at the insistence of the Americans, Charles de Gaulle was not invited to Potsdam -- just as he had been denied representation at Yalta -- for fear that he would reopen the Yalta decisions. De Gaulle thus felt a diplomatic slight, which became a cause of deep and lasting resentment for him. Other reasons for the omission included the longstanding personal mutual antagonism between Roosevelt and de Gaulle, ongoing disputes over the French and American occupation zones, and the anticipated

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