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...Next, Mendès went before a joint session of three parliamentary committees which have been assigned to study EDC. All have reported unfavorably on it. Mendès proposed...
...parliamentary enemies of EDC burst out into the corridors of the Palais Bourbon, their faces flushed with certain victory. "He's killed it," crowed one. "Mendès has torpedoed EDC forever...
...left and to right, EDC's enemies thundered. Former President Vincent Auriol, a respected voice, cried that EDC "would sunder France from the French Union." Charles de Gaulle, who dislikes both EDC and Mendès with equal intensity, announced that "a surge comes from the depths that will protect France's independence." But as the week wore on, the answering fire grew louder. "If France fails to ratify EDC," editorialized the conservative Figaro, "she will find herself on the road to Prague. All else is sophistry, self-deceit and imposture...
...Opposite me," said Mendès, "were men who were exasperated-and they said so-by the policy adopted by France during the past few years. In diplomatic language, they told me: 'The rearmament of Germany was proposed to you, you proposed the European Army. The European Army was proposed to you, you asked for changes. They were given to you, and then you asked for prior conditions . . . You got those too, and today you ask something new, pending a new Prime Minister, who in six months will ask for something else again...
...Mendès insisted that he wanted no more shilly-shallying. "Once the vote has been taken," he said, "we shall have to accept the consequences and either put the treaty into effect or else adopt a new solution in agreement with our allies...