Word: rearmaments
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...some new formula would have to be ready and waiting in the next few weeks before the Bundestag reconvened to lay German disappointment at Konrad Adenauer's door, before the Bevanite "No Guns for Huns" campaign seduced Britain's Labor Party into opposition to any German rearmament, before the U.S. got too involved in its fall election campaign, before France's Mendès-France could upset the applecart with another of his drastic alternatives...
Almost everyone seemed agreed that there must be "some kind" of German rearmament. But what kind...
Western European NATO of seven nations, which would nestle within NATO proper like a kernel in a nut, would permit German rearmament and still be acceptable to France. It would have the backing of the French nationalists, said Mendès, because it imposed no restrictions on French sovereignty, of the Socialists because it would bring in Britain as a counterweight to Germany, of some of the "Good Europeans" because it retained at least a whiff of European Union...
Alone in the Rain. Seeing his visitor off, Churchill murmured: "I will do all I can to help you." By this he meant that Britain would do its best to keep Anglophile Mendès in power. But not if it meant putting off German rearmament. Premier Mendès-France, said the British government, was left in no doubt that London still expected him to push...
...Opposite me," said Mendès, "were men who were exasperated-and they said so-by the policy adopted by France during the past few years. In diplomatic language, they told me: 'The rearmament of Germany was proposed to you, you proposed the European Army. The European Army was proposed to you, you asked for changes. They were given to you, and then you asked for prior conditions . . . You got those too, and today you ask something new, pending a new Prime Minister, who in six months will ask for something else again...