 | programme d'armement et la question du réarmement de l'Allemagne,
September 8, 1950; and see the equally candid
Note sur la participation de l'Allemagne ã la défense nationale,
September 18, 1950, both in AN, F60 ter, box 415 B; and Maier, "Finance and Defense: Implications of Military Integration, 19501952."
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| 35. August 5, 1950, AN, F60 ter, box 415 A. For further documentation on the breakdown of this figure, see memoranda of September 10 and 2, F60 ter, box 415 A. The Defense Ministry anticipated spending 850 billion francs for the 1951 effort, double the amount allotted for 1950.
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| 36. Schuman, in New York, sent two telegrams to Paris, both dated September 17, 1950, first outlining Nitze's proposals, then commenting on them (AN, F60 ter, box 415 B).
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| 37. There is a good deal of material on this subject in AN, F6 ter, box 415 B:
Projet de telégramme pour New York
[CIQCEE to Schuman], September 20, 1950; Daridan, chargé in Washington, to Alphand in New York, n.d.; revised Nitze note, "Suggested method for arriving at an equitable distribution of economic burdens in carrying out the Medium Term Defense Plan," October 2, 1950;
Note sur les conversations en cours concernant l'aide militaire,
September 30, 1950; and a further critique of the Nitze plan by Bernard de Margerie,
Note pour le Ministre
[presumably of Finance], October 18, 1950.
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| 38. On the breakdown of this sum, see
Note pour M. le Ministre des Affaires Etrangères sur les dépenses militaires françaises en 1951,
September 10, 1950, and the résumé of the meeting of the Comité de la Défense Nationale of October 2, 1950, both in AN, F60 ter, box 415 A. Of the funds asked of the United States, 170 billion francs would be earmarked for metropolitan defense, the other 100 billion francs for Indochina. In any case, the October 2 meeting of the Comité fixed the maximum sum of the French military budget at 580 billion francs, meaning that if the United States did not provide the entire 270 billion francs, the budget would have to be cut accordingly.
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| 39.
Aide-mémoire,
U.S.-French financial talks, October 17, 1950, AN, F60 ter, box 415 B.
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| 40. Bruce to State, April 18, 1951,
FRUS, 1951,
4: 38387, and Acheson to Bruce, April 30, 1951, ibid., 38788. The debate about what exactly had been agreed to in the October 1950 talks continued to produce venomous exchanges between Washington and Paris. See AN, F60 ter, box 418, May 12, 29, 30, June 25, 26, and July 7, 1951. Bruce was very critical of Washington's handling of the issue, as he made clear in the April 18 telegram, and in Bruce to State, June 28, 1951,
FRUS, 1951,
4: 397404. See Wall,
The United States and the Making of Postwar France,
200204.
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| 41. Letter from Thierry de Clermont-Tonnèrre [soon to become chief of the CIQCEE] to Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, then financial attaché in the French Embassy in Washington, September 27, 1950, AN, F6 ter, box 415 B. ClermontTonnèrre claimed to be speaking for Filippi, Guindey, de Margerie, Charpentier, and Wormser, the economic brain trust of the French Foreign and Finance Ministries.
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| 42. Bonnet to Ministry of Finance, June 8, 1951, MAE, DE/CE, vol. 321. For Alphand's remarks to the NAC, see memorandum of February 27, 1951, AN,
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