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...this uncomfortable reminder of an episode no longer discussed in polite Communist society, Molotov energetically took notes. He did not even try to reply until next...
Bogus Legalism. Molotov scored one diplomatic finesse during the week. Again and again, he raised a bogus legalism: under the European Army treaty, he insisted, a unified Germany would be forced to join the Western alliance and be subject to it for 50 years. Thus goaded, the Western Foreign Ministers were lured into emphasizing and repeating that Germany, once united, would be free to accept or reject Western commitments already made by West Germany. "A reunited Germany . . . cannot be bound by the obligations of its predecessors," Eden emphasized. Inevitably, EDC opponents in France could make much of that admission...
Wrote the Berlin Kurier: "To anyone with a feeling for national dignity, it might seem unpleasant to bargain for the Fatherland as for a carpet or a camel in the Orient. But bargaining it must be." Despite such a willing audience, Molotov failed badly in his efforts to appeal to the Germans. The West Germans-even those who thought that by bargaining away EDC they might get a reunited nation-were shocked at Molotov's bland dismissal of free elections as "parliamentary procedure...
...Eastern Germany, the response to Molotov was muffled but apparent. The Communists spared no effort. They organized special half-hour "enlightenment sessions" at every state-owned enterprise, to expound the daily Communist position...
...rally was shouted down by workers who stamped, whistled and cried: "Free elections!" The nervous Communists alerted the whole 200,000-man East German police force, and ordered the arrest of anybody who shouted for free elections as "a saboteur, warmonger and enemy of the state." At Berlin, Molotov found it necessary to warn bluntly that the Communists would not permit another June 17 uprising...