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Everyone had expected French fears and French objections to rearming the Germans. But no one quite expected that Defense Minister Jules Moch would toss into the parley a new, complex idea that went far beyond military organization into international politics and economics. Its essence: West German rearmament must not be above the regimental or battalion level, and then only within the framework of a West European federation, subject to the authority of a West European parliament and based on the Schuman Plan for integrating the West European coal & steel industry...
...German rearmament had split Pleven's ministers. The Socialists were dragging their feet over the issue. One of their spokesmen, Defense Minister Jules Moch, was opposed to the U.S. plan for quick recruitment of a Germany army. "I will be the minister of French rearmament, not of German rearmament," he said stubbornly. A hectoring Communist communiqué from Prague (see INTERNATIONAL), demanding a halt to German rearmament, sent some Socialists into a flutter; they saw "another Korea on our doorstep...
...Washington, Defense Minister Jules Moch and Finance Minister Maurice Petsche asked the U.S. for $300 million worth of arms for Indo-China. Defense Secretary George Marshall assured Moch that the U.S. would make every effort to speed supplies to Saigon...
...vague on the most fateful problem that had been before the Foreign Ministers in New York: the U.S. proposal to incorporate German units in a Western army. After further talks last week, in which Defense Secretary General George Marshall, British Defense Minister Emanuel Shinwell and French Defense Minister Jules Moch took part, the three Foreign Ministers' conclusions will be submitted this week to the full North Atlantic Council...
Some time after 3 a.m., Bidault presented his government to President of the Republic Vincent Auriol. To tired, ailing M. Auriol, most of the faces were familiar. Socialist Jules Moch, who had tried unsuccessfully to form the new government, was again the Minister of Interior. The M.R.P.'s able, courageous Robert Schuman, an ex-Premier himself, had been retained as Foreign Minister. The Radicals' Henri Queuille, Premier of the previous government, was kept on as Vice Premier. The Peasant Party's Maurice Petsche remained as Minister of Finance. In all, ten members of the Queuille government...