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, loc. 644