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Moscow's move provided an urgent mission for this week's Big Three conference in Bermuda: deciding when and where and with what objectives to meet the Russians. The most important problem turned around the French attitude toward EDC. The dimness of EDC's prospects in the French National Assembly became obvious last week when the Laniel government barely survived a confidence vote (275 to 244, with 103 abstentions) on a resolution weakly supporting "the policy of building a united Europe" (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...tough, unbudging attitude, they may help Dulles sell EDC to the French. But the Russians do not have to take the tough line. They can feed the wishful thinking of the French and other neutralists by peace-loving words and a few superficial concessions. Dulles' job at Bermuda will be to define the Western position so clearly that the Russians will not be able to divide the allies by a phony soft line...
Family Champion. The next morning the President worked in his clubhouse office. He telephoned Secretary of State Dulles to get the latest on preparations for the Bermuda Big Three meeting and on the Russian offer to hold a Big Four foreign ministers' meeting. Then on the golf course with son John and daughter-in-law Barbara, Ike took a father's satisfaction in successfully defending his family golf championship. Week's end found Mamie, John, Barbara and the children watching the Army-Navy football game on TV. Ike was on the golf course when word came that...
Laniel, whose government must resign in January when France inaugurates a new President, was trying to get some sort of moral support (not ratification) for EDC out of the Assembly, to give his lameduck government a little more standing at Bermuda. The Premier watered his resolution down as far as he could without draining it of all meaning: "The National Assembly . . . asks for assurances that the policy of building a united Europe will be continued . . ." Then Laniel put the squeeze on the Deputies by submitting the resolution to a vote of confidence. This meant that, if the measure was voted...
...Assembly solved the problem in its own way, by means of abstentions. The vote: for the government resolution, 275; against, 244; abstentions, 103. This meant that the motion was carried, the government was still on its legs, and France would have a voice at Bermuda-but since a majority of the Deputies had failed to endorse EDC, it was an all but fatal blow to that embryonic enterprise. Said one diplomat: "If EDC is born in France, it will be born by Caesarean section. And it practically involves the death of the government bringing it forth...