Word: rearmaments
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...recent French ratification of German rearmament brought a reversal of opinion from one professor and expressions of mild enthusiasm from several others...
These votes will be examined abroad with severity." The M.R.P.'s strategy was clear. Let the Paris accords pass, so that Mendes would get the blame for German rearmament. Make the margin ungraciously thin, so that Mendes would get no glory from it. But Mendes' failure to pose a vote of confidence gave many a Deputy an opportunity to register his dislike of Mendes and the Germans...
...before Christmas, the vote on German rearmament was announced: "Rejected by 259 for, 280 against." Mendes, sitting with his hands clutching one knee, barely moved. The Communists clapped. The rest of the Assembly sat in stunned silence. From the back benches came an audible whisper: "Perhaps that was going too far." Coldly and scornfully, Mendes told the Assembly: "You have just emitted a vote which is bad for the country." To repair what damage he could, he demanded immediate votes on other Paris agreements...
Momentarily chastened, the Assembly rapidly voted 372 to 154 to restore German sovereignty, 368 to 145 to approve the Saar agreement. Then Mendes announced he would resubmit the rejected treaty on German rearmament as a vote of confidence. Glumly, the Assembly adjourned for the weekend...
...minimum of argument and a maximum of assent. Resisting every parliamentary maneuver to block and delay by Western Europe's biggest Communist Party, Liberals, Monarchists, neoFascists, Republicans and right-wing Socialists joined with Premier Mario Scelba's Christian Democrats to vote 335 to 215 for German rearmament in NATO...