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Dulles, who saw no reason to alter the Western disarmament proposals that 56 nations had endorsed in the U.N. and the Soviets had flatly rejected, argued that any new approach to the Russians should be made through the U.N. France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, adopting as his own what was originally a British suggestion, urged that, instead, the Soviets be invited to discuss the matter with the Foreign Ministers of the four Western nations on the U.N. Disarmament Subcommittee-Britain, France, the U.S. and Canada. In the end, it was the U.S. that gave ground. The compromise solution...
West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, fearful of domestic repercussions, hoped to avoid any immediate consideration of missile bases on German soil, and told Dulles so. French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau proposed an implied bargain: France would grant IRBM bases if the U.S. would back France in Algeria and support French ambitions to join Britain and the U.S. as NATO's third nuclear power. In Rome the semiofficial news agency Italia reported that "the Italian government does not consider granting of missile bases to NATO a necessary consequence of the international responsibilities Italy has already assumed...
French sources said Gaillard and Pineau led off with a demand for a coordinated world policy among NATO members, extending beyond the strict geographical area covered by the treaty...
...advance agent for President Eisenhower, who arrives tomorrow, Dulles met with French Premier Felix Gaillard, French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, and NATO's secretary general, Paul-Henri Speak...
Before the United Nations Political Committee in New York City last week, France's Foreign Minister Christian Pineau made the most vigorous and persuasive statement yet heard of the case for French rule in Algeria. Excerpts...