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...problem for Europeans only. Talk of an EDC without France died almost as soon as it began. Konrad Adenauer contended that EDC might still be revived, but he sounded neither convinced nor convincing. Mendès-France proposed a looser European coalition that would include Britain, but Sir Winston Churchill (for all his high-minded talk of European citizenship in 1947) had said before, and last week said again, that Britain was unwilling to get too involved on the Continent...
Once, long ago, Sir Winston Churchill asked Adenauer: "Mr. Chancellor, if you had one wish, what would it be?" Adenauer replied without hesitation: "A strong France." He believed that working with a strong France would be difficult, but with a weak France, impossible...
Faced by the difficult and dangerous decisions of the cold war, some of the Western world's statesmen-notably Prime Minister Winston Churchill-have spoken wishfully on occasion of the possibility of peaceful coexistence with the Communists. Canada's External Affairs Chief Lester B. Pearson has often veered off in the same direction. But as his nation's chief delegate to the Geneva conference he has had a bellyful of Communist negotiators. Last week he took a realistic look at the problems of sharing a planet with the Reds; in a speech at a meeting of Canadian...
...French embassy in London. "You once confined me to quarters for ten days," Mendès said, recognizing him. "It was 14 days," the colonel replied. "You proceeded on a mission without orders." A rotund, familiar figure with a cigar was also on hand at Biggin Hill. Sir Winston Churchill, 79, who had driven seven miles from his country house at Chartwell, addressed his visitor, with his usual disregard for any language but English, as "Monsoor Mends Fra-a-ance." Then the old British bulldog and the spry little Frenchman drove off in Churchill's limousine to dis cuss...
...That France initiate some new European coalition, similar to the one which Winston Churchill had turned down, in which Germany would be rearmed under international supervision...