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...before the Bundestag reconvened to lay German disappointment at Konrad Adenauer's door, before the Bevanite "No Guns for Huns" campaign seduced Britain's Labor Party into opposition to any German rearmament, before the U.S. got too involved in its fall election campaign, before France's Mendès-France could upset the applecart with another of his drastic alternatives...
...State Department, with no plan of its own to offer, acted as if this were a problem for Europeans only. Talk of an EDC without France died almost as soon as it began. Konrad Adenauer contended that EDC might still be revived, but he sounded neither convinced nor convincing. Mendès-France proposed a looser European coalition that would include Britain, but Sir Winston Churchill (for all his high-minded talk of European citizenship in 1947) had said before, and last week said again, that Britain was unwilling to get too involved on the Continent...
...again at the text of EDC, diplomats noted that some of its devices, like the pooling of arms production, might be used to keep the Germans in check. . The vital question remained: Could France's allies persuade it to admit the Germans to NATO? The British thought that Mendès-France, at least, could be made to listen to "reason" because, after finding himself a minority of one against five at Brussels, he would hardly dare isolate his country seven to one in London...
...also becoming clear to many worried Frenchmen that the rejection of EDC had set in train a series of allied reactions which Mendès had not sufficiently anticipated. Shaping up before the French was one of those logical questions that French Premiers have a habit of putting to their allies. France might reject EDC, but is it prepared to go all the way and discard its NATO shield...
...manner of EDC's passing did credit to no one. Premier Pierre Mendès-France. famed man of decision, refused to decide. Deputies pleaded with him to give a clear lead; he would...