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Behind this insincere reconciliation lay not the dream of Marxist brotherhood but power politics. What moved Gomulka to embrace Ulbricht's seedy puppet regime was one of the most powerful levers in Central European diplomacy-the future of the Oder-Neisse frontier between Poland and Germany. It is a question that agitates both sides of the Iron Curtain, and will play a large part in any future Western dickering with Khrushchev...
...want to warn you," he added, "that any discussion of a peace treaty means discussing the Eastern frontier question," i.e., risking endorsement of the present Oder-Neisse border with Poland and thus abandoning Germany's "lost territories" to the East. It was the Chancellor's clinching argument, and a specifically German one, which had less appeal outside (the London Economist commented icily that the West "will still fight for Berlin but it will not fight for Breslau...
...Potsdam agreement is nonexistent," said Dulles, "the consequences of that would be not to destroy our rights in Berlin, because they don't rest upon the Potsdam agreement at all, but it might greatly compromise the territorial claims of Poland [to former German lands east of the Oder-Neisse line], which do rest upon the Potsdam agreement primarily...
...chief sticking point in Polish-German relations is the German claim to its former territories east of the Oder and Neisse Rivers, a territory about the size of Virginia. It was handed to Poland by the victorious Allies as compensation for the Polish territory seized by Russians. Adenauer has often promised that Germany would never use force to regain these lost territories; last week he went further. In a CBS interview he said that he could foresee the day when, in a United Europe, boundaries would be of less importance than they are today. In effect, Germany was not pressing...
...right foot, Tito characteristically hit on a diplomatic device that cost him nothing at all. At a luncheon for Gomulka, Tito blandly wound up a lengthy toast with the statement that he considered "the present Polish-German frontier on the Oder and the Neisse the only lasting solution...