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    "ocrText": "5/16/54 - Reel 7 - Track 2, Page 9\nimpossible to have a government which ean face up to big décisions\nand maloe them because it has not the necessary becking, either in\nthe country or in the parliament, and that this in turn reflects an\neconomic division thich is has grown up for more than a hundred years\nand very actively split in the last four years of inflation and their\ngrave socin] division. Nou here--the same question that I was posing\nis-mow here you have in the center of the Grand Alliance in Europe,\nboth geographically and politically, and as a vital factor in North\nAfrica and the Far East, a country which is unable to reach conclusions.\nNow what does that mean? Now does it mean that all our coalition efforts\nhere are doaned to frustration beéause we have at the heart of it something\nwhich has no strength, and how can you go about rectifying that? Is there\nTRUMAN\nthe\nany way in which you can encourage\nto pursuade the\nAN\nany\nFrench to take some constitutional steps which will begin to give them\nback the capacity of decision. Nou listened to this with\naome skepticism last time and said he was going to discuss it fully\nat this meeting.\nMR. FEIS:\nDid I? I don't remenber-but the new thought is there any possibility of\nthe renewal of anything like that Britich offer of 1940? Not as far-\nreabhing in that direction as...\nMR. ACHESON:\nI should think the whole discussions of the EDC have indicated that that\nwould not be possible.\nMR. JESSUP:\nIs there any other alternative beside these three? One, to say the\nFrench are washed uo and you have got to rearrange your whole thing on\nthe assumption that they are just no good. Two, to persuade the British\nto change their attitude and nove in and strengthen the French, or"
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