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...Paris agreements, said Molotov, "the peace-loving states of Europe must unite their forces and considerably strengthen them . . . This demands that the countries attending the present conference carry out common measures in the field of organizing their military forces and commands" against "possible aggression." On cue, Premier Otto Grotewohl said that "should militarism be revived in West Germany," his East German Republic "will find itself forced to answer by forming national armed forces...
...feet, and in the end will taste the bitter fruit of their own mistake," concluded Chang in a Chinese fricassee of metaphors. In other words, if the Soviet Union needed help in Europe, China pledged itself to supply it. "A very, very important result of the conference," said Grotewohl, and went home...
...Molotov as "provocative and insulting" and "bait for agents." Undismayed, the President repeated the offer last month, after the disastrous floods in Central Europe (TIME, July 26). Last week he got a surprising answer. In a formal note, handed to U.S. High Commissioner James Conant, East German Premier Otto Grotewohl not only accepted the offer but thanked the President. Bewildered East Germans were informed of the U.S.'s "friendly gesture" in the Communist press and radio...
Next day Chou paid gracious tribute-via the British Broadcasting Corp.-to the peace-loving people of Britain. He took off for a state visit to East Berlin, where puppet Red Premier Otto Grotewohl paid unctuous homage: "No power on earth can settle international problems without consulting the Great People's Republic of China." Chou took Grotewohl at his word; he surveyed one of Grotewohl's -and Russia's trickiest unresolved problems, then observed: "Geneva . . . will favorably influence the reunification of Germany...
...that Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov proposed at the Berlin Conference as a Red alternative to NATO (TIME, Feb. 22). It might also force the West, which has previously been able to ignore the East German regime as "illegitimate" and deal only with Soviet occupiers, to deal directly with the Grotewohl regime, thus bolstering its claim to sovereignty...