 | ber 4, 1954, ibid., 26263; also Bérard,
Un ambassadeur se souvient,
57274, 576). The Dutch seemed actually glad to hear of the EDC's demise; Bech, the Luxembourg foreign minister, was quite calm and spoke optimistically of a new solution; and even Spaak, one of the EDC's strongest advocates, seemed willing to turn toward a new solution quickly (Garnier to Mendès France, September 1, 1954,
DDF 1954,
24547; Saffroy to Mendès France, September 6, 1954, ibid., 27880; and Pierre de Vaucelles, chargé in Brussles, to Mendès France, September 1, 1954, ibid., 24748).
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| 71. PRO, CAB 129/70, Jebb to Foreign Office, September 4, 1954.
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| 72. Eden,
Full Circle,
151. On Anglo-French exchanges, see Crouy-Chanel to Mendès France, September 2, 1954,
DDF 1954,
257, and Massigli to Mendès France, September 4, 1954, ibid., 26061.
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| 73. Mendès France to Massigli, September 8, 1954,
DDF 1954,
31315; Massigli to Mendès France, September 9 and 10, 1954, ibid., 30810 and 32830. In this last telegram, Massigli says that it was Harold Macmillan who gave Eden the idea for the Brussels Pact solution.
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| 74. Eden,
Full Circle,
15362; Dulles to Eden, September 14, 1954,
FRUS, 195254,
5: 119294; Dillon to State, September 16, 1954, ibid., 119899; François-Poncet to Quai, September 14 and 15, 1954,
DDF 1954,
35859 and 37071; Bonnet to Quai, September 15 and 16, ibid., 37273 and 37779; Massigli to Quai, September 18, ibid., 39394; and Mendès France to various posts, September 18, ibid., 39598. Minutes of the Eden-Mendès France talks,
DDF 1954, Annexes,
14761.
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| 75. These differences emerged clearly in the working papers submitted by the French and British before the London Conference. See French memorandum, September 18, 1954, and British memorandum, September 24, 1954, in
DDF 1954, Annexes,
28790; also Mendès France's opening statement to the conference, ibid., 2531.
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| 76. For the final document of the London conference, see
DDF 1954, Annexes,
32951. The minutes of the discussions are in ibid., 23281. So considerable was the French success that toward the end of the conference, tempers began to flare. Eden accused Mendès France of seeking a veto right over German arms production and said France had made no concessions since the start of the conference, while Spaak huffed that France had received a privileged position in the Brussels treaty organization (Session of October 2, ibid., 23135). A wellinformed American observer of European politics, Emmet Hughes a former speechwriter for President Eisenhower and a Time-Life correspondent wrote to the president in December 1954 and nicely characterized the coup that Mendès France had pulled off at London: "One must admire the skill of this man at international poker: without a high card in his hand to play, he has gotten the burden of the EDC conflict off the back of France, won a great British commitment to the continent, at least matched Adenauer in the Saar negotiations, and gained a fine reception in the United States along the way extracting a not-soterrible Indochina settlement from the Soviets. Quite a show" (Eisenhower to Hughes, January 11, 1954,
Eisenhower Papers,
vol. 16, 1499, footnote 4).
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| 77. On the Saar settlement, see the telegrams from Ambassador Dillon to
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