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Schuman found sympathizers on the faculty. Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government and former political advisor to General Lucius Clay in Germany, said that immediate rearmament of Germany would be a "major blunder." There are many reasons for this, but the main one is that rearmament now would promote "the most unreliable elements in Germany," while weakening those political elements we (the U.S.) depend on most heavily, Friedrich maintained...
Torning present discusson of German rearmament "premature," McGeorge Bundy, lecturer in Government, summed up his views on the subject as follows...
William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History and former assistant for intelligence to the Secretary of State, takes a more compromising view. He feels that rearmament should go along with development of the Schuman Plan proposals...
Reappearance of German soldiers would have a devastating psychological effect in Europe, especially in France. This is a fact which Russian propagandists would not ignore, Friedrich said. To discuss such an explosive topic as German rearmament now is needlessly risky anyway, because it will be some time before our industrial plant can fill even our own demand for arms, he pointed...
Another compelling argument against German rearmament is that the present constitution of the West German Republic has a section specifically outlawing any form of compulsory military training, Friedrich said. He added that the process of constitutional amendment is slow in Germany and the German people would not now change this part of the Constitution. Nor is there any prospect for raising a sizeable force of volunteers, he claimed...