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...impatient" approach to reunification, Conant said, offers policymakers the two extreme solutions of neutralization at the cost of withdrawing U.S. troops from across the Rhine, or rearmament of Germany with the intention of an eventual invasion of East Germany...
While the first suggestion would shake German confidence in America's willingness to support them against the Communists, Conant explained that a warlike gesture in West Germany would antagonize our NATO allies and could result in war with Russia...
Illustrating the "unpredictability" of modern history, Conant described the change in French policy toward Germany. Both French and German parliaments have recently ratified the Saar agreement and proposals leading towards a European Common Market and a European Atomic Authority, although as recently as 1953 the proposed European army failed to be ratified...
...still regard that action of the French General Assembly as a tragedy," Conant stated...
Following the speech, a questioner pointed out that former ambassador George Kennan was the "Mr. X" of the lecture, since it was his ideas on the neutralization of Germany that Conant had opposed...