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...PAUL REYNAUD, former French Premier and EDC backer, who opposes the London agreements, in La Revue des Deux Mondes...
...Europeans, in perhaps understandable antagonism, let a crafty old nationalist carry their side into the fight. Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud scoffed at "the Eden miracle," warned of the "rebirth of the Wehrmacht" and sarcastically asked: "Will there be a German general staff which will train men a la prussienne and force in them the soul of a German soldier?" Even old Robert Schuman, who probably sacrificed his political future by his long fight for EDC, assumed a slight tinge of nationalism. "There is the risk," said he of the London plan, "that Germany will one day withdraw from this fragile...
...after day, French officials and party leaders trooped to the gloomy Reuilly barracks to testify in the espionage investigation that began last month with the arrest of a Red-hunting cop named Jean Dides. The witnesses ranged from ex-Premiers Paul Reynaud and Georges Bidault to dumpy ex-Pastry Cook Jacques Duclos, France's No. 2 Communist, who long has been running the party in the absence of ailing Maurice Thorez. In prison, nimble, wire-haired André Baranés (TIME, Oct. 11) methodically set to work fuzzing up his story of how he delivered records of France...
Means, Not Ends. Pale and defiant, Mendès took the rostrum. Looking at Pinay and Reynaud, he snapped: "I admire your energetic attitudes, although they have not always been in evidence . . . The treaty hung fire for 2½ years. It was signed by the Pinay government, but I don't recall Monsieur Pinay trying to bring it to a vote...
After the Battle. Mendès retired to his country retreat at Marly, relaxing in slacks and sweater. On the littered political field of battle, musketry still rattled and firing squads went about their melancholy tasks. Reynaud, Pinay, Schuman, Bidault, Pleven and Laniel issued a defiant pledge that they would never give up the fight for EDC. The Socialist Party expelled Jules Moch and two other prominent anti-EDC rebels. The M.R.P. expelled three. Three pro-EDC Ministers resigned from the Cabinet, exactly counterbalancing the three anti-EDC Gaullists who had resigned three weeks ago in protest against Mend...