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France wanted a tight little Europe embracing Britain and including a strong fence around Germany. On the eve of the conference, Premier Pierre Mendès-France outlined his ideas: 1) a British "association" with the Continent; 2) the admission of Germany and Italy to the 1948 Brussels Pact; 3) a system of "strict and severe controls" on the armies and arms of all Brussels Powers, but especially on the Germans. On German admission to NATO, Mendès hedged. Brussels first, said he, and then perhaps consideration of a NATO seat for the Germans...
Britain saw in the seeming Franco-German contradiction hope of a workable plan which would involve Britain more surely than EDC (through Britain's role as a Brussels partner) and also commit the U.S. more emphatically (through the NATO all-for-one agreement). Mendès-France seemed to be insisting on controls unacceptable to Germany. Adenauer's demands for all-at-once concessions were unacceptable to an aroused France. But neither, in Anthony Eden's view, had closed the door. He calculated optimistically-but perhaps not too much so-that theirs were bargaining terms, not final...
Paris, buzzing with rumors and guesses, waited impatiently for the tight-lipped Mendès government to explain what was really going...
When Premier Pierre Mendès-France came to power, Baylot was removed (TIME, July 26), and Jean Dides was transferred to a relatively minor job. But Dides was so in love with his former work that he went right on beagling about in the Red netherworld...
...young Wildes; it was "the smiling giant, always exquisitely dressed, who crawled about the nursery floor with us and lived in an aura of cigar smoke and Eau de Cologne." Unlike many another stiffly Victorian parent living on Tite Street, Wilde was always ready to romp with his boys, mend their toys and enter into their games...