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...based in large part on the Franco-German reconciliation. In 1945, Germany was a disarmed and bankrupt country. The Western zones were permitted to rearm only within the bounds of NATO, which was designed partly to restrain any possible West German hopes of regaining the Eastern zones and the Oder-Neisse territories by force. Without tying Bonn into NATO, the U.S. would never have permitted German rearmament. Similarly, the Common Market is designed partly to contain West Germany's prodigious economic growth. And the Franco-German Pact, which reverses several hundred years of history, is the strongest link between Bonn...
...because of East Germany's power shortage. Shops were short of shoes. Butter, milk and meat were hard to find in many cities. The papers kept reporting arrests of "economic criminals"; one 69-year-old woman in Dresden drew 15 months for hoarding food, and in Frankfurt-on-Oder a man who burned down two barns full of corn was sentenced to death for what the court called "hatred against the state...
...tenor of the talk was clear. Coming to the White House, Adenauer had only vague ideas about what subjects could be negotiated with the Russians, but some very firm thoughts about what ought not to be discussed with them: recognition of East Germany, confirmation of the Oder-Neisse line as the boundary between Poland and Germany, establishment of Central Europe as a neutral zone. To the old man's delight, Kennedy agreed to keep such issues out of any discussion on Berlin-although they might be considered in future talks on some larger issue, such as reunification of Germany...
...position on Berlin remains essentially unshaken: no recognition for East Germany, no thinning out of the troops in West Germany, no recognition of Poland's Oder-Neisse frontier with East Germany. One demand he is prepared to make in Washington: the right of NATO, including West Germany, to determine, independently of the U.S., when nuclear weapons must be used. Says he: "A situation could arise where one hour might be decisive for us all and the President of the United States might not be reachable." If Washington wants a "flexible" approach to Moscow, Adenauer is not necessarily opposed...
...point of accepting Germany-wide disarmament and neutrality as a possible basis for reunification. Konrad Adenauer will ignore such far-out conditions when he sits down with President Kennedy next week. As in the past, he will reject recognition of East Germany and of East Germany's Oder-Neisse frontier with Poland. On the issue of a neutralized Germany, the doughty old Chancellor has made it clear that he will never budge, for it would make West Germany a "Soviet satellite...