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Stalemate in Europe? The biggest and worst news concerned the parlous state of EDC. Whatever the Brussels Conference (see FOREIGN NEWS) or subsequent plastic surgery might salvage from the Mendés-France amendments, EDC's future was highly limited. From its beginning, EDC had two aspects. The larger was a long step toward European unity. As such, it represented the positive side of U.S. policy, the hope for a more rational and orderly world. EDC's other aspect was more modest: a device for making German rearmament palatable to French politicians. This objective was part...
...could this "something better" now be applied to Europe? The State Department had few if any answers. Asked if the U.S. would prefer Mendés-France's emasculated EDC to no EDC at all, a State Department official replied: "That is like offering us the choice between the guillotine and the electric chair...
Until last week all this passion and misgiving had produced only delay. Then along came France's Premier Mendés-France, with his policy of timetables and . alternatives. At Brussels he confronted the other five members of EDC with a choice: he could push EDC through the French Assembly, but only if France's partners would agree to amendments that would make it an old-fashioned military alliance. Gone was the controversial notion of a common army for a United Europe...
...technique that had served Mendes so well at Geneva failed him at Brussels. From its birth, EDC had stood in danger of being killed by its enemies; but at Brussels it was EDC's friends who preferred to see it killed rather than emasculated. In its death struggle, EDC provided one unforeseen consolation. By forcing five sovereign governments to stand up and defend its supranational clauses, EDC, in death, had given proof of the life that was in the ideal. Mendés the realist, with his ability to weigh facts, apparently had not known how to measure...
Last week, by a whopping 510 to 107 (with only the Communists opposing), the Assembly agreed to vote on EDC. Mendès-style, at the end of August...