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    "ocrText": "3/14/54: Reel 7, .rack 2,\n-ge 4\nthat if the EDC had been adopted, and the French were in it, and it was\ninterests,\noperating, you immediately begin to get a whole different series of/atti-\npolitical attitudes,\ntudes, thoughts,/hhich would be quite unexpected; and therefore it seems\nTRUMANY\nto me a very sad thing. Now we can start here-we 've got 20 minutes or\nARCHIVES & -NATIONAL RECORDS ADMIN AR\nso, and maybe it won't take any longer than that to raise this question\n<< COVERANCE\nabout France which I find very interesting indeed. It hasn it anything to\nspeculation.\ndo with history, but it has to do with (indistinct) (?)\nleaves\nMR. FEIS:\nI think your last comment still/needs Auriol is statement that while--\nwhich I suppose was a passionate declaration in substance--that while\nit may be true of most people that the trend of their thought for all pur-\nthe Germans\nposes adjusts as it is affected by new knowledge, in the case of/it doesn't.\nMR. ACHESON:\nI'm not at all sure.\nMR. FEIS:\nI'm not saying that is my view, but I suppose that would be, in bringing\ntogether his statement and your comment, that would be the bearing of his\nposition; that's the essence of his position.\nMR. ACHESON:\nWell, my comment was particularly directed toward the suggestion that, if\nFrance had ratified EDC in 152, it wouldn't have meant anything. I was\narguing that it would. But I think it does figure-- think it's fair for\nyou to say, \"well, does this also bear on Germany? And I think it does.\nIf Germany were in this common operation, a lot of things would begin to\nin ?\nhappen. I think the present difficulties/with the Social Democrats would\nbe changed. I think if they could-if this thing could have been worked\nso that the British would have become closer to EDC, so that we, as a\nwith\npractical matter, were operating closer/im it, the Social Democrats\nwouldn 't have the feeling that they were isolated and the Catholic\nis\ncommunity wouldn't have. I think everybody in Germany who/yas so timid\nwhen any to talitarian indication appears would not be so timid because\nthey would have the support of other people who like themselves would be\nagainst this. They wouldn't be confined in their own little bailiwick.\nI think all these things would have had an effect. Well, the thing that"
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