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Approval by the French Assembly of the London agreements to rearm West Germany is very likely, Donald C. McKay '28, professor of History, said last night...
...Clement Attlee, the trip might have been just another junket. But 71-year-old Clem Attlee, who had been Prime Minister of Great Britain (1945-51) and might be again, decided to go himself. Britons never forget that Attlee was the man who, in 1947, ordered Britain to rearm against the threat of Communism, who with these words sent British troops into Korea in 1950 to repel Communist aggressors: "They talk of freedom while they murder it. They talk of peace while they support aggression. They are ruthless and unscrupulous hypocrites who pretend to virtues which their philosophy rejects." "They...
...question before the house was: After EDC, what next? Four years' effort to rearm the Germans and forge a united Europe had reached dead end. The Atlantic alliance was confronted with what one English paper called "a hole in the wall." Confidence between the allies was dissolving into distrust-the U.S. playing "hands off," the Germans beating their chests, the French thumbing their noses and threatening to run away...
Search for Substitutes. Yet the statesmen at least seemed to recognize that something had to be done and fast. In France, Germany and Britain, Cabinets met in special sessions with the same urgent agenda: to find a substitute for EDC that would safely rearm the Germans without losing the French. Their emphasis was on speed, for 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...
...West Germany, Chancellor Adenauer, a "good European," had bet his government's life on EDC. It would now take another, not necessarily a better, kind of political Germany to rearm in the teeth of French opposition...