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...Schumacher talked himself into the position of wanting all or nothing. After heated debate, the Bonn Assembly sided with Adenauer, voted 220-152 to join the Council. Said Konrad Adenauer exultantly, "Germany's road to Europe is now open." Wrote French High Commissioner Andre François-Poncet in a letter to Adenauer: "I am convinced [this step] will have as favorable results for your country as for the cause of solidarity among the European nations...
...World?" Last week Germans were aroused and enraged by a report that France had signed with the French-run Saar government a so-year lease of the Saar coal mines. German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer asked French High Commissioner Andre Frangois-Poncet for a copy of the agreement. François-Poncet obliged. Later Adenauer called the French officials for "clarification" of some points in the document. François-Poncet obliged again...
...French came back stridently. Their High Commissioner for Germany, Andre François-Poncet, demanded a retraction of Dehler's tirade. In Paris, a national assemblyman howled: "There is no difference between the Bonn government and the Nazis. German methods and mentality are always the same...
...British down to 24?. Then the French proposed two conditions: 1) ending German subsidies that made for export dumping below cost, 2) freezing the price of exported German coal at the pre-devaluation rate. If Germany insisted on raising the export price of coal, then, François-Poncet insisted, the price of inland coal in Germany must also be raised; this would make Germany's steel and other fabricated articles more expensive in the export market...
...scheme Germany's loss of dollars would be large. As the all-day, all-night session went on, tempers fired up and threats emerged. McCloy threatened to use the U.S.'s veto on economic matters, which he is given by the High Commission Charter. François-Poncet threatened in turn to take the dispute back to his government...