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...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, he said almost contemptuously, but not for strong nations like Russia. The Soviet Union could not depend on the guarantees of others...
Faure objected heatedly that delaying reunification without a deadline was the equivalent of rejecting it. Eden protested that he could not understand why the Soviet delegates were "wounded" by his suggestion of a five-power guarantee...
...Diversionists. The first two days had developed some divergences, though no dissensions, in the West's own ranks. The U.S. had been surprised when Eden produced his plan for a demilitarized zone at the opening conference; the strategy had been to save such an offer as a bargaining inducement later. Both British and U.S. delegations were a little annoyed at Edgar Faure, whose opening speech contained unhappy surprises. His suggestion of an all-European security organization into which both NATO and the Warsaw countries could be "fused" seemed dangerously close to Russia's plan to dismantle NATO...
...Answer. The Russians looked stunned. With fewer than 300 words, the President had dramatized the sincerity of the U.S. and of himself, and had challenged the Russians to match it. The Russians had no answer. Though Faure and Eden were as startled as the Russians, Faure responded instantly and generously: "I wish the peoples of the world could have been in this conference room to hear the voice of a man speaking from great military experience. Had this been possible, they would believe that something had changed in the world in the handling of this question of disarmament...
Modest Proposal. But Eden, though he praised Eisenhower's "eloquent" proposal, and was "deeply moved by the sincerity and warm feeling for peace," was a little miffed. Such sweeping proposals do not accord with the traditional British diplomatic search for limited objectives. Eden submitted his own "more modest" proposal-a "simple" system for joint inspection of Communist and Western forces now confronting each other in Europe. Once more, while the news of the Eisenhower plan flashed around the world, the conference returned to its pre-ordained ways. Eden's modest proposal was for a "practical experiment" in "operative...