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...MENDÈS CAN RESTORE ATLANTIC SOLIDARITY
...Mendès-France indignantly denies the accusations of those who imply that he intends to junk the Atlantic alliance. His denials are well justified, for to anyone who knows the moral strength and courage he has shown during the war years, the accusations are absurd. There should be no doubt about the sincerity of his repeated declarations in favor of the Atlantic alliance; only these declarations mean nothing. In politics intentions mean less than the consequences of our actions. Benes did not want the Sovietization of his country; the Roosevelt government did not intend to deliver a hundred million...
...Mendès-France should order the government radio to explain to Frenchmen that the irritation our Western partners feel toward us is understandable. He should announce as soon as possible what his alternative solution is to the German rearmament. The Premier should say that the majority which rejected EDC is not "his" majority and that his real majority will soon be composed, not of Communists, neutralists or false nationalists, but of those loyal to European and Atlantic solidarity, who by mischance, on the EDC issue, find themselves dispersed between the two camps...
Britain's suggestion of a nine-power conference to be held in London this week was politely shunted aside by Mendès-France (who murmured "premature"), by Adenauer (who feared that haste might result in another Brussels brawl), and by the U.S. State Department, which wasn't ready with ideas...
Following his tour, Eden still hopes to convene a nine-nation meeting in London. Face to face, he believes that Mendès-France and Adenauer can work out a series of "adequate safeguards" before NATO takes up the question of German admission, probably in October. France willing, the chances were growing that some time this fall. West Germany will get back its sovereignty and be "associated" with NATO. And if Paris says no? The British at least are for a series of ad hoc bilateral pacts between the U.S., Britain and Germany, so that the Germans can be tied...