 | naturally received extensive coverage in Paris: see
Le Monde,
November 19, 22, 23, and 26, 1949.
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| 50.
Note: Réarmement allemand,
Direction d'Europe, November 18, 1949, MAE, EU 194955, Allemagne, vol. 65.
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| 51. Seydoux telegram, November 28, 1949, MAE, EU 194955, Allemagne, vol. 65.
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| 52. Bonnet to Paris, November 30 and 24, 1949, MAE, EU 194955, Allemagne, vol. 65.
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| 53. Seydoux to François-Poncet, December 7, 1949, MAE, EU 104955, Allemagne, vol. 65.
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| 54. François-Poncet to Paris, December 9, 1949; see also December 8, 1949, both in MAE, EU 194955, Allemagne, vol. 65.
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| 55. Adenauer,
Memoirs,
270. On the fallout from the
Plain Dealer
interview, see 26770; and Schwartz,
America's Germany,
11617.
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| 56. Text of a speech by Robert Schuman to the Conseil de la République, December 9, 1949, delivered by Seydoux to Bonn, Washington, and London, December 13, 1949, MAE, EU 194955, Allemagne, vol. 65.
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| 57. Dockrill,
Britain's Policy for West German Rearmament,
814; and see "Reestablishment of German Armed Forces," April 26, 1950,
DBPO,
Series II, 2: 13841. Though the reestablishment of a German military force was deemed "undesirable at present," the paper did see at "the end of the road" German membership in NATO and "a degree of German rearmament" under Western supervision.
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| 58. JCS 2124, April 30, 1950, and subsequent documentation in the JCS 2124 series of memoranda on this issue,
Records of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
Part 2,
19461953: Europe and NATO,
Reel 2. These various documents were submitted to the NSC and became NSC 71, dated June 8, 1950. A copy of NSC 71 is in the Truman Library, President's Secretary's Files, NSC meetings, box 208.
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| 59. Truman's remark is in a memo dated June 16, 1950, to which was attached a note in Truman's hand, saying of the JCS reports "Both wrong as can be" (Truman Library, President's Secretary's File, NSC meetings, box 208). Acheson's account of the ambassadors' meeting is in State to Certain Diplomatic Offices, March 27, 1950,
FRUS, 1950,
3: 34. For NSC 68, see
FRUS, 1950,
1: 23492.
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| 60. Dockrill,
Britain's Policy far West German Rearmament,
15; Schwartz,
America's Germany,
119.
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