Word: german
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...name of our love for la Patrie, I conjure you not to leave her isolated." So Foreign Minister Georges Bidault pleaded with the French National Assembly last week to approve the Western German state that Britain and the U.S. wanted-and that French delegates had accepted in London...
...political gesture than an act of generosity. Originally reparations to be paid by each country had been fixed at $300,000,000. In goods, services and occupation costs, the Soviet Union had already taken over three times that amount from Rumania. In Hungary, through seizure of so-called German assets and a system of joint Hungarian-Soviet companies, the Soviet control of Hungary"? economy had become so complete that further reparations payments would, in effect, mean that the Soviet Union was exacting war damages from itself...
...gilt and plush Chamber of Deputies lurked the specters of a resurgent Germany, of France's own military impotence. As they listened to the debate, deputies also thought of the 60 Red Army divisions facing westward, of Washington and London, who want to rebuild a Western German state; of millions of other little Europeans who fear that this major step towards European reconstruction may plunge them instead into...
...enthusiasm or excuses"; it was "a case of getting something or taking nothing." His voice drooping, Bidault reviewed his major defeats and minor victories. He had failed to have the Ruhr cut off from Germany. He had failed to sell the French program of a loose federation of German states as the political structure of the new Germany. Worst of all, perhaps, he had failed to get sufficient guarantees for the future security of France. But to keep her stake in the game, France would have to ante up: she would have to ratify...
...Left & Right sounded somewhat faint. Their thunder had been stolen two days before by General Charles de Gaulle. He had unloosed a jeremiad denouncing Bidault and offering to form a new government ("I myself am ready"). The London agreement he flayed as foreshadowing the creation of two conflicting German governments and a war for which France was unprepared. He called for renewed negotiations with the U.S. and Great Britain, and failing this, demanded that France go her own way alone. "We are on the edge of an abyss," he cried...