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...Martin Euler told newsmen that there were going to be new Saar talks with the French. "Reopening of Saar talks," said the headlines. No such thing, answered the French Foreign Office. Hastily the German Foreign Office sent off assurances to Paris that Adenauer had no intention of asking Premier Mendès-France for any "interpretations" or "protocols." Adenauer had only promised the FDP to put their points to the French. He was still in full command of the situation...
...Figaro, shook up his staid readers and set off a fusillade of protest in the French press. Just back from his first trip to the U.S. in four years, Brisson reported: "In Washington, in New York, distrust is everywhere." Brisson, whose paper takes a dim view of Premier Mendés-France reported that Americans felt that France, by reneging on EDC, had gone back on her word. When Brisson argued that France is rightfully worried about Germany after three invasions, he reported that a top Washington "policymaker" replied: "One understands that a woman has nerves, that she makes hysterical...
...most slashing attack came from the small, pro-Mendés-France intellectual weekly, L'Express, edited by Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (TIME, June 14). Gasping at "the audacity of telling us that distrust is everywhere in America and that Mr. Foster Dulles . . . cherishes a lot of mental reservations about the chief of the French government," L'Express lumped Brisson and Le Figaro with "those wretched persons who dug a ditch for France . . . who twice a year sold Americans on the great Indo-China illusions . . . who sold the prestige of France in Asia and the young graduates...
...Deadline. All morning long negotiators haggled over details, reached agreement only one hour before the signing ceremonies were scheduled. With only 15 minutes to go, Mendès rushed over to the Quai d'Orsay to get his Cabinet's approval, then met Konrad Adenauer in his private office. They signed. Then the Premier hustled the Chancellor down the hallway to the state dining room where Eden, Dulles and the other WEU ministers were waiting...
There, sitting on ornate chairs so high that little (5 ft. 6 in.) Mendès-France could not touch the floor with his toes, the ministers signed the documents restoring Germany's sovereignty and establishing WEU. Then they all hurried across the Seine to the Palais de Chaillot, where the 14 NATO powers signed Germany in as a member. Early in the alphabetical order, Mendès-France signed for France, then busied himself with the afternoon newspapers, taking no further interest in the proceedings. He did not have to. He had gotten what he wanted...