Word: rearmaments
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Mendès-France should order the government radio to explain to Frenchmen that the irritation our Western partners feel toward us is understandable. He should announce as soon as possible what his alternative solution is to the German rearmament. The Premier should say that the majority which rejected EDC is not "his" majority and that his real majority will soon be composed, not of Communists, neutralists or false nationalists, but of those loyal to European and Atlantic solidarity, who by mischance, on the EDC issue, find themselves dispersed between the two camps...
Mission to Moscow. Why did Attlee go? In political terms, it was because he knew that rabble-rousing Nye Bevan would go. Attlee, as a supporter of German rearmament, well knew that he will come under heavy attack from Bevan's left-wing supporters at the Labor Party conference at Scarborough late this month. If Attlee did not go, Nye would appear the anointed apostle of peace, bringing fair-sounding pledges from Malenkov and Mao. And Bevan could paint Attlee as the dour and unpopular proponent of "Guns for the Huns" who refused...
...powers plus the U.S., Britain and Canada. They would talk first of giving West Germany its sovereignty, though perhaps not so sweepingly as the Adenauer government demanded in its first angry reaction to the death of EDC. Then some careful formula would have to be worked out for German rearmament within the framework of NATO. Limits on German strength would be harder to negotiate now that the Germans were stronger and in no mood to be discriminated against. But looking again at the text of EDC, diplomats noted that some of its devices, like the pooling of arms production, might...
After 27 months and four Premiers, France had at last made its decision. Out of suspicion, misguided patriotism and ancient prejudice, it rejected the formula France itself had devised for a controlled rearmament of the Germans within a homogeneous six-nation European army. In the crucible of decision, party lines shattered. Three big groups held themselves together: all 99 Communists voted solidly against EDC; so did all but six of the 73 Gaullists. The Catholic M.R.P.s of Bidault and Schuman voted 86 to 2 for it. But 53 out of 105 Socialists bolted party discipline to vote against...
...hour, stretched into four. Minister after minister rose to contribute his sense of outrage, and the improvised Cabinet room in the hotel swelled with heady, confident talk of Germany resurrected. Next morning, in a formal communiqué, the Adenauer government announced that it would seek restoration of sovereignty and rearmament within a security system through negotiations with the U.S.. Britain and those powers that had ratified EDC. France was not mentioned, as though it did not exist. The Allies were also notified that West Germany would no longer accept the limited sovereignty previously agreed to in the Bonn contracts...