GAULLE Charles de. L. A. S., 5 March 1961, to his son Lieutenant-Commander Philippe de GAULLE (in Toulon); 4 pages in-8 headed Le Général de Gaulle. On the world situation and the development of France. "My dear Philippe, I am following you and your ship on your Atlantic cruise. No doubt you are now at the beginning of your return journey. Your Mum and I are planning to go to Toulon to attend little Jean's First Communion. We will go down - as incognito as possible - to the Maritime Prefect's house. We arrived on Saturday evening by plane and will leave the same way on Tuesday morning. I'm looking forward to seeing Henriette and your sons. Everyone will obviously be sorry that you won't be there. In the meantime, the world is still in turmoil. Of course, we are the first to be involved. In what we have to do, particularly in Africa and especially in Algeria, my effort consists of leading the movement and holding the reins without letting anything be dictated to us or snatched away from us either from within or from without. If, as I very much hope, we succeed, we will be able to emerge from all this in the best possible conditions. After that, the big thing will be our own economic, social and military development. For that is where power lies. I'd love to be able to talk to you about all this, about the present and the future. But this year doesn't lend itself to it. However, I ask you to continue to think about it and, when you have the opportunity, to share your judgments with me. It's very important to me, please know that"... He was at La Boisserie for the weekend. There, he is "undertaking the construction of a real tennis court"... LNC, III, p. 337.