"In the name of our love for la Patrie, I conjure you not to leave her isolated." So Foreign Minister Georges Bidault pleaded with the French National Assembly last week to approve the Western German state that Britain and the U.S. wanted—and that French delegates had accepted in London.
Behind Bidault's insistence stood the fear that, should he fail to get approval from the Assembly, France might be left perilously alone; in the half-light of the gilt and plush Chamber of Deputies lurked the specters of a resurgent Germany, of France's own military...
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