The Dutch, a hardheaded people, know no better alternative to “the Russian threat” and “the German problem,” and approved to hand over control of its army to the EDC.

In the 17th century Senate building in The Hague, Dutch Foreign Minister Johan Beyen last week asked his country’s elder statesmen to hand over control of The Netherlands’ proud little army and 20,000-man air force to a supranational authority that does not yet exist. The European Army (EDC) has never…