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Second Day. Next morning the West felt a stir of fresh hope when the Big Four's second team-the foreign ministers -quickly worked out an agenda with very little argument from Molotov. But at that afternoon's big session, Bulganin buried the last hope of achieving anything at all on Germany. A free Germany must be a Germany free of any military obligations to the West, he said flatly. He rejected Eden's proffered reassurance of a five-power security guarantee against a united Germany; such guarantees might be all very well for small, weak powers...
...meantime, Bulganin suggested, both West and East Germany could participate in a European security pact. Later, a general security system, abolishing blocs, could reunite Germany "after the creation of confidence." This will take a long time, he repeated...
...that under no circumstances would we approve of an aggressive war, nor would the NATO organization. If anybody believed that German unification should be delayed because of fear of a united Germany in NATO, he would say, right here and now, that there was nothing to fear. Bulganin hastily interrupted: "That's all very well . . . We believe...
Balks & Crags. Zhukov's colleagues were less amiable. As the summit conference opened on the third afternoon, Bulganin was stubborn. He wanted a security plan (his own), but refused to accept the West's price-unification of Germany first...
...felt like a patient straining his ears while four doctors discussed his operation in the next room. As the conference opened, bells tolled all over Germany, students marched silently through cities, people gathered to pray. A Teletype connected Der Alte's mountaintop with his lieutenants in Geneva. Bulganin's statement that the unification of Germany could wait had plunged them in gloom, but that gloom had been expected. Eisenhower's statement-as it reached the public through a British briefing officer-sounded as if the West were getting ready to offer Russia a security pact while leaving...