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...Soviet Union made an astonishing proposal last week. In 1,700-word notes to Britain, France and the U.S., Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov invited the U.S. to join his proposed pan-European security alliance and in return asked for a seat for Russia in the councils of NATO...
...Giap's buildup. His 37-mm. antiaircraft guns were effectively harassing the French supply airlift to Dienbienphu, and his guerrillas were raiding French supply routes and depots near Hanoi. But Giap was able to move reinforcements and ammunition to his 40,000-man striking force in 200 new Molotov trucks down two open roads from Red China. The French could do almost nothing to stop him: they needed their very few combat planes for Dienbienphu itself...
...first time, the Communists called the so-called police by their proper name: the East German Streitkrafte (fighting forces). Diplomatically, the Kremlin hoped for even greater gains. A "sovereign" East Germany could plausibly be a step toward the gargantuan pan-European security pact 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...
...sense this was progress, though only because the French, à la Molotov, had taken an untenable position, and then retreated from it. The hard fact remains that the Germans cannot start rearming until France has ratified EDC. To persuade the French to get moving, Britain leaked the news that some of its troops on the Continent might be placed under an EDC general. More important, the U.S. bluntly served notice that it soon plans to press for West Germany's return to sovereignty, with or without EDC. "The occupying powers are agreed," said U.S. High Commissioner James B. Conant...
Last week the East German Communists provided a nice example of what Molotov was really talking about. Workers of the East German farm and forestry union scheduled an election of officials...