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...Slow. With Mayer safely elected, the council heard a plea by The Netherlands' Foreign Minister Johan Beyen for a dramatic Monnet-style increase in the Community's powers. Backed by the Benelux nations, the Dutchman proposed 1) a common market for all European products, 2) the integration of European highways and railroads, 3) a European pool for the development of atomic power. But the French wanted to go slow, and the Germans, who used to be ardently supranational when they had no sovereignty to lose, no longer seemed keen to surrender any of their national independence...
...Dulles, doodling; Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, looking more than ever like a plumper and younger Winston Churchill; Canada's L. B. Pearson; Konrad Adenauer, gaunt and silent; Gaetano Martino, at his first international appearance as Italy's Foreign Minister; Joseph Bech from Luxembourg; Johan W. Beyen of The Netherlands; dark-jowled Premier Pierre Mendès-France, reading a magazine. The pressing task before them was to fill the void left by the French rejection of EDC-in short, to bring an armed Germany into the alliance without losing the French...
Mendèes' allies were furious. "Nine-tenths unacceptable," snapped Dutch Foreign Minister Johan Willem Beyen. Cracked the Düsseldorfer Nachrichten: "The only regulation really missing is one requiring German soldiers to turn in their rifles every evening...
...German and the Dutch, had already faced up to the consequences of rejecting Mendès' protocols and decided that, bad as those consequences were, the acceptance of an EDC that would make a mockery of a united Europe was infinitely worse. The Netherlands' Johan Willem Beyen gave Mendes a direct answer: "I apologize for not being able to agree with the French proposals." Konrad Adenauer followed, looking grey, tired, and deeply suspicious of the facile Frenchman opposite. The 78-year-old Chancellor objected to Mendès' discriminations against German soldiers, but what he feared most...
...17th century Senate building in The Hague, Dutch Foreign Minister Johan Beyen last week asked his country's elder statesmen to hand over control of The Netherlands' proud little army and 20,000-man air force to a supranational authority that does not yet exist. The European Army (EDC) has never raised cheers in Holland, for it will speed the rearmament of Germany, a nation that overran the Dutch only 13 years ago. The Dutch fear current French weakness as well as future German strength. But the Dutch, a hardheaded people, know no better alternative to what their...