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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mere refusal to deal with East Germany offers no solution to the Berlin or German problem. Ideally a free, Western-oriented Germany would be the most desirable successor to the present divisions. A unified Germany, though, merely because of strategic consideration, would never be permitted by the Russians. Furthermore, Soviet prestige is staked on the East German experiment as much as Western prestige is staked on a free Berlin. On the other hand, an Eastern-aligned Germany would be unacceptable to the 50 million West Germans as well as to the other NATO allies...
...Germans forms an instructive precedent which shows how effective this tactic can be. Could weakened NATO forces contest successive nibbles and would we dare to use massive retaliation against a small Russian move? In any case, a buffer zone plan seems to provide little more stability than exists at present. Demilitarizing Central Europe might very well leave us with the awesome decisions that the Russians now face in deciding any political or military move against the West...
Although the present situation is far from relaxing, it is not intolerable. The territorial status quo has been preserved for a decade, and meanwhile an apparently healthy integration of the German Federal Republic into Western Europe is now taking place. This may prove to be one of the most significant transitions of the era. Any Central European bloc would interrupt this integration. The Common Market, the Euratom plan and any further developments would be curtailed. The unification of Germany ought not to tear away the Federal Republic formally from the West until the cultural and economic ties have thoroughly permeated...
...profound change occurred in the post-Sputnik era, said Davis. "Dr. Killian and his group of scientific advisers managed to defeat the Strauss-Teller position within the Administration, and this led to the present arms control conferences...
...Houses need better facilities for their present non-resident tutors, and not an increase in tutorial staffs, two Masters agreed last night. The two ruled out any substantial enlargement of their own Senior Common Room...