Word: pact
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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West Germany reacted with scorn. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made plain that he will accept controls on German arms "only if others are controlled too." He said he favored the plan sponsored by Britain's Anthony Eden: full sovereignty for Germany and simultaneous membership in the Brussels Pact and the NATO alliance...
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...
...beat the laundry problem) and two constant companions: a pair of swimming trunks and his dinner jacket. As the big Air Force DC-6 carried the traveling Secretary into the North Atlantic night, U.S. TV audiences saw his image and heard his voice in a report on the Manila Pact, which he had kinescoped earlier in the day. As soon as the "Fasten Seat Belts-No Smoking" light winked out. Dulles changed into slacks, a comfortable sport shirt and a well-worn pair of slippers. Then he summoned his staff to the midship lounge, began preparation for the next...
...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 to NATO through a Balkan pact-type arrangement, similar to that which links Yugoslavia to NATO partners Greece and Turkey...
...Kremlin last week congratulated France on its "patriotic act" in rejecting EDC and revived its Berlin offer of a one-big-Europe collective security pact. On this point at least, the U.S., Britain and France could quickly agree: in identical notes, they coldly turned down the Kremlin's sly invitation...