The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 111, Ed. 2 Wednesday, October 6, 1954 Page: 11 of 28
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THE WORLD TODAY
Premier Mendes-France
Proven Superb Gambler
By JAMES MARLOW
- WASHINGTON (—From what
can be seen of his tactics. Pierre
Mendes-Fance, the French pre-
mier and foreign minister, has
proved himself a superb gambler.
At the nine power London con.
ference which agreed to let West
Germany rearm. Mendes-France
played one of the toughest, shrewd-
est and most daring games of dip-
lomatic poker in recent years.
France could have come out of
that game discredited, isolated
and perhaps forced to watch her
allies let the Germans rearm.
Whether the French liked ft or not.
and without any French say about
how much rearmng Germans
could do.
The result could have swept the
French into a backwater of his-
lory, reducing them to the status
of a truly second-rate European
power.
Knew the Stakes
But at the same time. Mendes-
France knew the enormous stake
which his allies, particularly the
Americans and British, had in this
game. They wanted quickly a real,
and not illusory, defense against
Russia.
To make it real called for a Ger-
many rearmed in alliance with the
French, not a Germany rearmed
at the expense of an angered
France.
So, although Mendes-France
knew how much France could lose
if he lost, he knew also that his
allies would have to choose be-
tween losing the chance for a firm
defense or making concessions to
him.
He went into the London confer-
ence with the United States, Brit-
ain and Germany more than
a week ago demanding conces-
sions. One of the biggest conces-
sions he wanted was from the
British.
He wanted the British to reverse
an age-old policy and promise to
keep British troops on The Euro-
pean continent as a guarantee
against the day when perhaps a re-
armed Germany might turn on her
French ally..
The old British policy had been
to make alliances with European
nations, balancing one off against
the other, while never committing
her own troops to service on the
Continent.
Push Fails
The United States and Britain
had both tried to push the French
into Joining a single European
army with rearmed Germany. This
would have meant, for the French,
giving up their own national army.
That was one of the reasons the
French Assembly voted down the
single-army idea. Among other rea-
sons was ths British refusal to heed
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the French request that they keep
troops in Europe permanently.
The British might have saved the
single army if they had given that
promise. Instead, they sat on their
hands.
Mendes-France sat on his hands
too while the Assembly did its
work. He didn’t lift a finger for
the single army. He must have
known the Assembly actios would
create a Western crisis.
The Allies would have to seek
an alternative fast or face the pros-
pect of a hollow defense against
Russia. They did seek the alterna-
tive in a hurry. They called the
London conference.
There, last Wednesday, British
Foreign Secretary Eden promised
British troops would be kept on
the Continent. Some of the diplo-
mats there reportedly wept, know-
ing they were participants in a
historic moment.
Not Any Man,
Just His Pants
NEW ORLEANS « — "Hurry,”
the excited caller told police head-
quarters. “There’s a man hang-
ing from a window on the 12th the trousers and hung them cut
floor of the hotel"
Police squad cars reported
back, "Just a pair of pants dry-
ing — cancel call.”
Freeman Francis, a clothes
presser at the hotel, had washed
the window on a piece of wire
to dry. To the excited passerby
the shadow of the swaying trousers
on the side of the building looked
like a man.
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 111, Ed. 2 Wednesday, October 6, 1954, newspaper, October 6, 1954; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1649606/m1/11/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.