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...Mendès' plan was ingenious, but its core remained that the French would have their cake and eat it, too. France would accept no restrictions on its sovereignty, but German arms would be limited by treaty...
...British reminded Mendès that this was 1954, not 1951. It is no longer a question of what new restrictions should be imposed on Germany, but what restrictions the Germans will accept. Mendès' plan, in any case, was disliked by the British Foreign Office. It transgressed a primary axiom of contemporary British policy: not to become more involved in continental Europe than...
Alone in the Rain. Seeing his visitor off, Churchill murmured: "I will do all I can to help you." By this he meant that Britain would do its best to keep Anglophile Mendès in power. But not if it meant putting off German rearmament. Premier Mendès-France, said the British government, was left in no doubt that London still expected him to push...
Turned down again, the French Premier flew to Normandy to report his rebuffs to French President René Coty, who was taking the waters at Bagnoles de 1'Orne. The same evening, feeling sorry for himself, Mendès took his private diesel train back to Paris, ordering the engineer to stop overnight on a railway siding. "I was all alone with the rain," the Premier said afterwards...
...Next day Mendès plunged all of France into one of the most turbulent weeks in the history of the Fourth Republic. Official Paris was in an uproar, with ministers scurrying, newspapers trumpeting, Parliament fragmenting into anxious little knots of excited, gossipy Deputies. The Premier was peevish. To his bitterly divided Cabinet (12 against, 13 for EDC), he reported sourly that France had been "dragged through the mud" at Brussels. This was a foretaste, Mendès said, of how EDC would work: instead of France controlling Germany, Brussels had shown that Benelux and Italy would "gang up" with...