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...first effect was in the relations be tween the Western allies. For several years, Britain, France and the U.S. have been drifting apart. One of Molotov's obvious goals was to widen the gaps. At Berlin, the Western Three closed ranks. Dulles. Eden and Bidault worked decisively together in a unity long dangerously absent...
Anti-Communists who have a hard time understanding the full sweep of Soviet plans and the relation of one threatened part of the world with another should find this helpful. Dulles. Eden and Bidault have succeeded in making the witness for Communism tell the truth. No greater victory was possible at Berlin...
...Frenchmen who oppose German rearmament inside a European Army (EDC) were alarmed at German "national armed forces" as an alternative. It looked dangerously like the Reichswehr, which Hitler had built into the Wehrmacht. As for Molotov's proposal that each occupying nation withdraw all its troops from Germany, Bidault commented wryly: "I can well see the advantages for the Soviet Union in withdrawing part of its troops a few dozen kilometers [the distance from Berlin to Poland: 50 miles] to the rear, if it could thus achieve . . . the departure of American and British troops from Europe...
...Western strategy was to expose and exploit Russia's fear of entrusting the future of Germany to the ballot box. With skill and force, France's Bidault led the prodding and taunting. "In all political systems, freedom has a synonym-that is, risk," said Bidault. "A united Germany will have freedom to choose . . . We are prepared to take that chance...
Scraps to Be Burned. Except for their one embarrassing admission, Dulles, Eden and Bidault held the offensive throughout the week. Their teamwork was so good that, in contrast to last week's daily huddles, they met only twice to mesh plans. Besides, they could only assume that the sumptuous "private" quarters provided for each delegation in the Soviet embassy would be as full of hidden wires as a television set. Around the conference tables in their quarters, beneath portraits of Lenin and Stalin, delegation members spoke not a word, communicated by scribbling notes on pads. Later each tore...