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Brussels was no one's victory; it was too soon for even its participants to know whose defeat it would be. Adenauer in sisted desperately that EDC is not yet dead. Winston Churchill got into the act, bringing Eden back from vacation, inviting Mendés-France to fly over for lunch. Topic for discussion: the speedy return of sovereignty to West Germany...
...moment, all that anyone really knew was that Brussels had been both a death and a beginning. For that moment of clarity, at least, Mendés-France could be thanked...
...radio voice of Pierre Mendès-France rang out across France. "I am conscious as I tackle this question that it touches the deepest chords in our national feeling. Not only does it divide Frenchmen among themselves, but it tears each one within himself...
...Mendès-France admitted that he and his Cabinet had suffered "tortures" over EDC. "And yet," he said, "each of us, and first and foremost the one who heads your government, must face the truth. The truth-and our allies remind us of it everyday-is that Germany will not be excluded forever from her own defense...
Pages of Protocols. Mendès-France's way of facing up to EDC was to water down the treaty until he thought he could get it through the French Assembly. Mendès' 30 pages of protocols changed EDC so radically that what remained was neither European nor a defense community. His key protocols would have...