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...back to the reunification of Germany. Molotov abandoned his "all-Europe" security plan and produced a new one based on a tactical error committed by Prime Minister Anthony Eden at the first summit meeting. Eden had tentatively proposed zones of controlled armed forces on either side of the present East-West German border-instead of on the eastern border of a reunited Germany, as the West now wants. Britain's Macmillan forcefully rejected both Molotov's proposal, and, by implication, Eden's earlier idea: "We ... do not believe that there can be any real security in Europe...
...current problems of diplomacy and defense should help to check the Geneva euphoria that has been prevalent in this country during the past few months. They ought not, however, to interefere with American support of the valuable East-West accords that arose from the July conference at Geneva. In addition to promises not to start another war, Geneva has inspired such concessions as reduction of the Soviet army and release of thousands of prisoners...
...admit that agreement on the major issues of Germany and disarmament still lies far in the future. The United States, while continuing to negotiate on these questions, should focus the world's attention on the steps toward peace that definitely can be taken at this time--the expansion of East-West contacts, for example. Progress in this field, if continued long enough, may eventually transform the Spirit of Geneva into a world-wide spirit that will make Geneva conferences unnecessary...
Closing Link. Four countries with 123 million people, reaching in an east-west chain from the Bosporus to the Himalayas (see map), are now-but for the formality of Iran's parliamentary approval-bound to come to each other's aid in the event of armed attack on any one of them. Between them, they have 50 standing divisions, some better than others, but all with a share of modern weapons. Through Turkey, on the west flank, they are linked with NATO; through Pakistan, on their east flank, they are linked with SEATO. Thus the Northern Tier completes...
...Socialists of Erich Ollanhauer stuck to their perpetual line that the Adenauer theory of strength through unity with the West was a failure. More significantly, some of Adenauer's own Christian Democrats were beginning to talk of developing "a more German" policy. But unity with the West remained the dominant view. There was some worry that the West might be soft-talked by the Russians into tabling German reunification and moving on to discussion of an East-West European security arrangement. This, Adenauer men pointed out, might lead to a situation where the "two Germanys" would feel forced...