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...stand, and announced that he too thought that the four big powers should confer on Germany. He attached three stipulations apt to prove sweet to Germans and bitter to Stalin: 1) genuinely free elections in the Soviet zone; 2) no "neutralizing" of the new Germany; 3) revision of the Oder-Neisse (Polish) frontiers. But he would go right ahead with the contract for West German integration with the West...
...very polite, and diplomatically correct. The West expressed doubts that Germany can be unified until free elections include the Soviet zone. The West wondered whether Russia intends to give Germany back the seized lands east of the Oder-Neisse rivers. And the West expressed grave reservations about letting a unified and independent Germany arm itself: arming inside a European army is one thing; arming on its own would be a "backward step." As France's Robert Schuman put it the day before: "Never leave Germany to herself is my principle...
School No.1 cautions the West not to reject Russia's offer solely on grounds which the Russians can do something about, but the West cannot. Thus, Russia might permit free elections, and at a later date hand back the land east of the Oder-Neisse to sweeten the bargain. Then what would the West do? School No. i argues, in effect, that Russia may now be making a tactical retreat...
...sample of this feeling: West German newspapers frequently refer to the Soviet zone as "Middle Germany," meaning that East Germany, which Germans eventually hope to get back, is what lies beyond the Oder-Neisse, in satellite Poland...
...determine whether free elections can be held there; 2) that the Russians fail to say whether unified Germany could conduct its own foreign" policy, could join in various European agencies like the Schuman Plan; 3) that Russia invokes the Potsdam Agreement to keep German territory east of the Oder-Neisse rivers, while proposing to revive the German army, prohibited by Potsdam...