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...having put France in the painful position of making a decision, was stuck with a France that would expect to go on making decisions-just as if it had a grown-up government. France, Washington realized last week, would no more assent to the sim ple rearmament of Germany than it would to the plan, originally French, of rearming Germany within...
...mischief and getting the disputants back together took skilled diplomacy. Iran's young Shah and his strongman Premier, General Fazlollah Zahedi, had to operate in an ugly, xenophobic climate created by demagogues and Communists. Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (owned 53% by the British government) was unwilling to assent to any agreement that seemed to reward illegal seizure, for fear of the effect it would have on other Middle East rulers...
Halfway House. Churchill was insistent, and the Cabinet finally gave grudging assent to Churchill's meeting Malenkov at some halfway house such as Switzerland, Sweden or Germany. The Russians, secretly sounded out at Geneva, seemed interested. Within a few days the answer came back from Molotov. Of course, Malenkov was willing to meet Churchill-but he would meet him only in Russia...
...sovereignty to the EDC treaty had been France's in the first place, designed to bring about German rearmament without a revival of German militarism. Bonn would get self-government only by simultaneously agreeing to put its armed forces under supranational command. But while Bonn gave its assent, France fiddled with its approval, and left Chancellor Konrad Adenauer exposed to increasingly dangerous attacks at home for failing to win sovereignty for his people...
...keystone of Western defense plans for Europe is the European Defense Community and its formula for arming West Germany. At the Berlin Conference last February the U.S. thought it had made a bargain with the French: the U.S. would assent to French negotiations on Indo-China at Geneva if the National Assembly would consider EDC before Geneva began. Last week when EDC finally turned up on the calendar of the National Assembly's steering committee, it was hastily postponed even by its friends. Reason: it would be hazardous to put EDC to a vote until Geneva is over...