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‘What could be more earthy than coal or steel?’

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In May 1950, Acheson visited Paris on his way to London for a meeting of the North Atlantic Council. Acheson’s presence in Paris, he wrote later, ‘in view of what occurred, convinced Bevin of a Franco-American conspiracy against him’.

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  1. Margaret Gowing, Independence and Deterrence (Macmillan, 1974) p. 507.

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Renwick, R. (1996). ‘What could be more earthy than coal or steel?’. In: Fighting with Allies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379824_19

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