France Restored: Cold War Diplomacy and the Quest for Leadership in Europe, 1944-1954 (64 page)

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78. Bidault had an extremely tough time persuading the parliamentary leader of the party, Maurice Schumann, not to oppose him in the Assembly (Executive Commission, minutes of June 9, 1948, AN, MRP Papers, 350 AP, box 46). Schumann in the end did support the party.
79. Caffery to State, June 10, 1948,
FRUS, 1948,
2: 32728.
80. National Committee communiqué, June 12, 1948, AN, MRP Papers, 350 AP, box 58.
Chapter Four
1. This view was stated clearly in the CIA report on "Political Trends in Western Germany," July 22, 1948, Truman Library, President's Secretary's Files, box 255.
 
Page 232
2. Adenauer,
Memoirs,
11415.
3. Murphy to State, July 11, 1948,
FRUS, 1948,
2: 393.
4. See
FRUS, 1948,
2: 383418.
5. Saint-Hardouin to de Leusse, September 5, 1948, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 312.
6. Koenig to Clay, September 10, 1948, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 312; Murphy to State, August 28, 1948,
FRUS, 1948,
2: 41718.
7.
Note sur le Statut de l'Occupation,
Central Europe Office, September 24, 1948, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 313.
8. Memorandum from the Office of Economic and Financial Affairs, October 15, 1948, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 313.
9. This long memorandum emanated from the Central Europe Office of the Direction d'Europe; as such it would have had the approval of Pierre de Leusse, if it was not actually written by him. The memo is undated, but was written in mid-October 1948 (MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 313).
10. Saint-Hardouin to the Direction d'Europe, October 21, 1948, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 313.
11. Schuman to Koenig, October 29, 1948, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 314.
12. Koenig to Foreign Ministry, November 4, 1948, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 315; and see Murphy's recapitulation of this meeting in
FRUS, 1948,
2: 43438.
13. Clay's reaction to Koenig's complaint is described in Murphy to State, November 5, 1948,
FRUS 1948,
2: 43840. The military governors' aide-mémoire of November 23, 1948, is included in ibid., 44243. In the end Koenig was supported by General Robertson, who, as Massigli later learned, expressed concern to London that the Council was indeed showing a marked tendency to favor centralization (Massigli to Quai d'Orsay, November 13, 1948, MAE, Y-Internationale 194449, vol. 315). On the persistent British concerns about German recovery, see Turner, "British Policy towards German Industry."

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