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...what of Britain, which had joined in last June's statement that if EDC failed Germany would be granted sovereignty and the right to rearm? Last week there were forecasts that Britain would cave in under French pressure and would not join the U.S. in pressing for German rearmament...
...years of pretense that France had a free choice on the question of whether or not Germany should be rearmed came logically to a close with last June's U.S.-British announcement that Germany would be given sovereignty (and the right to rearm) whether France liked it or not. But even after that, Western policy for Europe continued to remain in abeyance, while EDC, in both its aspects, was left half-dead and subject to further clawing in the bear pit of French politics...
...this respect, the U.S. could learn from the artful Chou Enlai. who has a talent for making minimal requests of countries he cannot order around. The only request the Communists make of the French, for instance, is not to rearm Germany; they ask the Indians only to be in favor of "Asia for the Asians." Implicit in these small and easy commitments is all that the Communists presently want of France and India: to stand aside. Too often U.S. requests to young and sensitive nations, or to old and proud nations, have been crowded with demands and pledges that have...
...back. Indo-China will still be lost, because as a nation we aren't really ready to fight for Indo-China, and our allies aren't ready to fight if we aren't. EDC might scrape through, more likely be blocked. The Americans and British will rearm the Germans anyway, which we will be bitter about but will accept. France will still be rich enough not to go bankrupt, or important enough so that the U.S. won't let her go bankrupt...
...that Britain has given such concrete evidence of support, the French National Assembly must ratify the EDC treaty. Not only did the idea of EDC spring up in France, but the French recently stated that they would permit Germany to rearm only if the German forces were part of a European, not a national army. Such a supra-national force will come into existence only if the French will it. Today, no single European state can act as a third force powerful enough to deter Soviet aggression. If a balance of power is possible in the hydrogen...