英国与德国的重新武装

对于20世纪50年代前期德国的重新武装，英国初则支持美国的大西洋联盟框架而反对法国建立欧洲军的普利计划；在美国对法妥协的斯波福德计划失败后。转而对普利计划采取较积极的态度；法国计划失败后，又通过艾登计划最终将德国重新武装纳入大西洋联盟框架。上述政策的变化受到两大因素的制约，即美国压力下重新武装德国的迫切性和重新武装的框架——大西洋联盟还是超国家的欧洲机构。前决定了英国对法国计划态度的转变，后则决定了英国不会加入欧洲防务集团并始终希望建立大西洋联盟框架。实际上，英国的方针是一贯的，造成法国计划失败的主要原因还在于法国人自己。

Britain and West German Rearmament

British policies towards West German rearmament during the first half of 1950s are following:At first Britain supported an American plan,that is,to rearm West Germany in the structure of the Atlantic Alliance,and opposed France's Pleven Plan which was designed to build an European Army.After the failure of American Spofford Plan,she turned to a relatively active attitude to the Pleven Plan.Then,the failure of the Pleven Plan provided Britain an opportunity to initiate the Eden Plan and finally rearm Germany in the Atlantic structure.The development of above policies are restrained by two major factors:the urgency to rearm West Germany under the heavy pressure of America and the ways to do so --in the structure of Atlantic Alliance or through an European supranational institution.The former decided the change of British attitude to the Pleven Plan and the latter decided that she would not join the European Defense Community and hoped to rearm Germany in the structure of the Atlantic Alliance from beginning to the end.Actually,Britain's principle had been obvious and coherent and it should be mainly due to the French themselves for the failure of the Pleven plan.