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...Gaullists within West Germany's ruling Christian Democratic Union, this loose federation scheme is mainly a convenient but thin disguise for what they really want-a German-French axis, independent of the U.S., that would enable Germany to carry on a far more nationalistic policy. Mostly Roman Catholic in faith and cultural tradition, they are suspicious of the Anglo-Saxon, Protestant world; above all, they fear that the current relaxation between Washington and Moscow is being achieved at the expense of eventual German reunification...
...German-French alliance is "the laughing stock of the world," cried Bonn's General-Anzeiger, and the influential Stuttgarter Zeitung complained: "De Gaulle has assigned us the role of mere pedestal for his power." The long-moribund refugee organizations-which claim to speak for more than 12 million Germans exiled from German lands now in Communist hands-visited Adenauer to warn of restiveness in their ranks since the Oder-Neisse talk started. The presidents of four North German states wrote, warning the Chancellor not to bind the Federal Republic so closely to France and the Common Market countries, that...
...appease traditionalists, the French would retain Paris, operating it like the Free City of Danzig. A further incentive might be to append the name "French" to the new political regions, as "German-French Coal-Mining District" or "Italian-French Riveria," and require that at least one Frenchman participate on the executive board of the new governments...
...take all the dossiers out of the drawer," said Mendès. He began that afternoon with hope. He spoke of a Moselle canal to link Lorraine's economy with the Ruhr, of a Rhone canal to open the Mediterranean to Germany, of joint arms plants, of joint German-French companies to develop France's North African territories. The Saar, Mendès indicated, could be just a small item in a new, sweeping Franco-German era of partnership...
...seen camels in Bulgaria, transport planes in Greece, seagoing barges at the Danube's mouth. Correspondents had seen Rumania's Puppet Premier General Ion Antonescu stage a ceremonial farewell for German troops faring southeastward. The Greek islands had been seized. German torpedo boats had appeared in the Aegean, and Nazi "tourists" in their outlandish, paper-stiff civvies had appeared in Syria. The German-French agreement (see p. 27), officially opening Syria to the Nazis, had been signed and sealed...