 | F60 ter, box 418, and Spofford to State, February 26, 1951,
FRUS, 1951,
3: 6667. Also see Bonnet to Paris, December 6, 1950, March 16, 1951, April 20, 1951, May 4, 1951, in MAE, DE/CE, vol. 321.
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| 43. The Marjolin paper is in Katz to Foster, February 22, 1951,
FRUS, 1951,
4: 512.
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| 44. For the text, see Porter to Foster, August 29, 1951,
FRUS, 1951,
4: 5457.
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| 45. Griffiths, "The Schuman Plan Negotiations: The Economic Clauses"; Schwartz,
America's Germany,
186203; Isabel Warner, "Allied-German Negotiations on the Deconcentration of the West German Steel Industry."
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| 46. Bérard was concerned about the obvious support Hays showed for the idea of direct German entry into NATO. He was, according to Bérard, rabidly anti-Soviet, prone to drunkeness, and hostile to the European army idea (
Un ambassadeur se souvient,
363, 374).
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| 47. Francois-Poncet wrote to the Ministry that Germany insisted that "the recognition of the principle of absolute equality of rights, in both political and military affairs, must precede German rearmament" (February 7, 1951, MAE, EU 194955, Allemagne, vol. 74). The following discussion owes much to the excellent treatment of Germany's relations with the Allies in Schwartz,
America's Germany,
23578. See also McGeehan,
The German Rearmament Question,
11225 and chap. 5; and Large,
Germans to the Front,
11153.
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| 48.
Réarmement allemand et concessions politiques à faire à l'Allemagne,
from Guy le Roy de la Tournelle's office, the Direction Générale des Affiaires Politiques, February 19, 1951; also Bérard to Paris, January 23, 1951, both in MAE, EU 194955, Allemagne, vol. 74.
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| 49.
Rapport sur les discussions techniques qui ont lieu au Petersberg au sujet d'une contribution allemande à la défense, 9 janvier-4 juin, 1951,
MAE, EU 194955, Allemagne, vol. 75.
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| 50. Alphand to Paris, reporting his talk with McCloy, June 4, 1951, MAE, EU 194955, Allemagne, vol. 75. François-Poncet likewise believed that the Allies must now turn to "our project" for a European army as the best way to solve the political problem of German rearmament (François-Poncet to Schuman, June 12, 1951, same dossier).
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| 51. Geoffrey Wamer, "The Labour Governments and the Unity of Western Europe, 19451951," 7578.
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| 52. Acheson,
Present at the Creation,
558. For Bruce's lengthy appeal in favor of the EDC solution, see his telegram of July 3, 1951,
FRUS, 1951,
3: 80512. Monnet recounts his discussions with Eisenhower, which went a long way toward persuading Ike to support the EDC, in
Mémoires,
41922. For Eisenhower's remarks, see "Report to the National Security Council on the Definition of United States Policy on Problems of the Defense of Europe and the German Contribution," August 1, 1951, containing the Eisenhower telegram to secretaries of defense and state, dated July 18, 1951, and Acheson's memorandum on supporting the European Army plan, dated July 30. These papers were issued as NSC 115 and were adopted as U.S. policy (Truman Library, President's Secretary's Files, Subject File, NSC Memoranda, box 193). Ambassador Bonnet thought the American shift in favor of the EDC was due to growing concern in
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