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...Craig picked up administrative experience under heavy pressure, learned to shave with toilet soap (which he still uses instead of shaving cream), and made an important acquaintance. One day, when General Dwight Eisenhower visited the division's headquarters in the basement of a brick school building in the Saar, Major Craig was assigned to brief the general on the division's operations. The general "asked a million questions," and left behind a political as well as a military devotee. Says Craig: "He gave the people around him and those meeting him for the first time a great feeling...
...Baden (pop. 37,000) in the French Zone of Germany. There, in the Prince's Salon of the Hahnhof, he met Konrad Adenauer for the first time since that October night in Paris when the two men battled until 3 a.m. to hammer out an agreement on the Saar. At first, the atmosphere was starch-stiff with formality and suspicion. But as soon as Der Alte recognized that this time Mendès-France was seeking his help, not handing him an ultimatum, the conversation improved...
Speaker after speaker arose to voice the old fears and complaints that they had voiced four, three, two years ago-oblivious to all the new concessions (British troops, Saar settlement) made just for them. In the end, the French Assembly proved again that it is an assemblage of negatives. Men who, by their dedication to EDC, had shown themselves ready to accept German rearmament, now joined the 100 Communists in voting it down...
...argued. "If we refuse it, they will do it just the same." Deputies hooted in disbelief. Had they not defied the last threat of "agonizing reappraisal" and gotten away with it? Mendes recited the new guarantees he had extracted from the U.S. and Britain, and their guarantee of the Saar deal. He pleaded against abstention-though he himself had abstained from voting on NATO and EDC. "It would be better to say no than to refrain from voting," he pleaded. "If your vote can be interpreted as a sign of weakness or hesitation . . . I say to you, with deep emotion...
Momentarily chastened, the Assembly rapidly voted 372 to 154 to restore German sovereignty, 368 to 145 to approve the Saar agreement. Then Mendes announced he would resubmit the rejected treaty on German rearmament as a vote of confidence. Glumly, the Assembly adjourned for the weekend...