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...West's offer was made to the Kremlin but addressed primarily to the German people. A German settlement, the West said, can only be worked out if there is a "genuinely representative all-German government, formed as a result of free elections and able to participate in full freedom in the discussion of a peace treaty." A united Germany must be free and sovereign, safe from outside interference, and secure from any domestic putsch. Above all, the West insisted, Germany must have "the basic right of a free and equal nation to associate with other nations...
...Assure the West that a freely elected All-German government will have "freedom of action" (to join defensive alliances) both before & after an all-German peace treaty is signed...
Special Delivery. The West decided how to answer the Soviet offer of "free" all-German elections: ask sharp questions to unmask the insincerity of the Russian proposals. How free would elections be? Would the Reds release political prisoners, restore civil rights, allow anti-Communist parties to organize and campaign? Would a free and united Germany, Russian-style, be free to join such Western alliances as the Schuman coal & steel plan and the European Army? Before committing itself to Big Four talks, said McCloy, the West "wants firm evidence, firm facts. We have all suffered too much -Germans included-to jeopardize...
Adenauer maneuvered adroitly. To take the edge off opposition charges that he is putting integration ahead of unification, he welcomed a Socialist resolution: that German unity is "the highest goal of German policy." To prove his loyalty to the goal, he promised to urge the West to arrange free, all-German elections. But Adenauer's best defense was his Realpolitik. Instead of arguing for Western integration for its own sake, he explained that the best way to get bigger & better concessions out of the Russians is to snuggle up close to the West...
...West Germans: Saw their Chancellor Adenauer dismayed. Unswerving friend of the West, he was finding his own colleagues taking deep swigs out of the Soviet bottle. Muttered Jacob Kaiser, his minister for All-German affairs: "Germany and the West must consider seriously whether or not a turning point has been reached . . ." Said Free Democratic Leader August Martin Euler, Adenauer's political ally: "For the first time, the Soviet has come up with a proposal worth discussing...