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Congratulations on your article [July 12] on France's Premier Pierre Mend èes-France . . . Whether he succeeds or fails in his attempt to find a solution to France's many problems, he will be remembered . . . as the only Premier of France since the war who had the nerve to tell his people exactly what was wrong with their country...
...Americans did not like the idea of the [July 20] deadline, and considered that it put Mendès-France in a weak position, you might as well know that the French people did like the idea of such a deadline, because that was something entirely new in our rotten politics. Our previous unimaginative statesmen did not 'know anything better than stalling. The risk taken by P. M.F. worked like a fresh wind in a dead man's house...
...Senate action is a reminder to France and Mendès-France that the U.S. can take measures for the defense of Europe that are much less palatable to the French than EDC. The U.S. cannot allow the Communists Asian leverage to be used to disarm Europe...
...defense of Europe has always been generally linked to Asia, but as a result of Geneva a new and dangerous specific dependence is established. Premier Mendès-France has placed his political future at the mercy of the Communists, who can destroy him at any time by resuming hostilities in Indo-China. If he makes an effort to get EDC ratified, the Red high command can pull the rug out from under...
...clock one morning last week, France's Premier Pierre Mendès-France drove through deserted Parisian streets to Le Bourget Airport. He was bound for another trouble spot-Tunis, the capital of strife-torn Tunisia. Having made a "cruel" peace in Indo-China because French colonialism had missed its opportunity there, he was determined that France should not make the same mistake in North Africa...