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A year ago. Mendès told the National Assembly flatly: "France must limit her objectives, but attain them; establish a policy which is perhaps less ambitious than some would desire, but hold to it. Our aim must not be to give the illusion of grandeur, but to remake a...
In other words, France could no longer maintain the fiction that she was one of the world's Big Five, a fiction nurtured by De Gaulle and his successors, affirmed again and again by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower, made statutory in the permanent seats of the...
Now that the French were talking of "alternatives" to EDC (which might require renegotiating the whole treaty with the other five nations). West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer decided the time had come to make his own position explicit and public. Despite Adenauer's repeated affirmations of unyielding...
Accordingly, the British are determined not to get into a thermonuclear war. The peril to Britain is no illusion. They would indeed be superhuman if they were not afraid. But however understandable the British attitude may be, the fact revealed by the Eden speech is: the U.S. has no strong...
Political Views: Describes himself as a French New Dealer, but his domestic program grows out of some essentially conservative premises: hard money, balanced budgets and sound businessmen's practices. Mendès-France has built his reputation solely by the thoroughness with which he digs into problems, the clarity...