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Plotting Ways Out. If any two men could bury the age-old Franco-German rivalries, it was Schuman the German-speaking French Catholic from the Moselle Valley, and Adenauer the French-speaking German Catholic from the Rhine Valley only 75 miles away. With a prod from Acheson and Eden, they sat down to reconcile the conditions imposed on them by their own parliaments...
Within hours after Eden and Acheson proclaimed the new dawn, new difficulties came up like thunder. Britain, France and Italy made clear that they will need more American dollars. The French announced that because of their galloping inflation they will be able to raise only twelve divisions by year's end-not 14, as promised...
Germany or by the divided National Assembly of France. Schuman represents a government that may fall from power any day. Adenauer represents a government that cannot be thrown out until June 1953, but probably could not get re-elected tomorrow. Acheson spoke for an administration unsure of its ability to keep the all-vital dollars flowing from Congress (the known suspicions of Congress were a great help in knocking heads together in Lisbon). Eden spoke for a country whose bipartisanship in foreign policy is threatened by party differences for the first time since...
PARENTS ANNOUNCE ENGAGEMENT The Beat That Backfired From London, Jean Allary, veteran diplomatic correspondent for Agence France-Presse, filed what he thought was a big news beat: Dean Acheson had privately assured French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman that the U.S. intends to keep troops in Europe indefinitely...
Paris' afternoon papers broke the story from A.F.P., one of the world's half dozen biggest news services, in Page One headlines. It was perfectly timed. The Assembly was still quarreling over whether to back the European Army (see INTERNATIONAL). Acheson's supposed assurance was needed by the Faure government to quiet the Assembly's fears that the U.S. might leave France alone with a rearmed Germany on its hands. But the United Press quickly knocked A.F.P.'s "scoop" in the head with an official U.S. denial, and opponents of the government began to wonder...