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...with East Germany); no one can guess accurately how much more private trade went on. Though some German industrialists were anxious for the government to guarantee long-term credits, Chancellor Ludwig Erhard ruled out the idea as long as the Soviets block German reunification. Said Erhard: "Such credits would strengthen the Soviet position, so that its willingness to negotiate would be weakened...
...finally reach agreement. Nowadays, it is not politically popular to go home empty-handed -governments and industry both have too big a stake in the success of the Common Market. The French have been particularly effective in floating stories that the market is floundering. Such reports, of course, strengthen their bargaining position. But at bottom the others are convinced that the French genuinely want the Common Market to work, for, in De Gaulle's ambition to lead Europe, his natural collaborators are his Common Market partners...
...Gaulle does not want the U.S. to get completely out of Europe," Hoffmann said. "But he wants to strengthen Europe into a power that will have a voice of its own in East-West discussions vital to the security and welfare of Europeans...
That is precisely why the U.S. has been pressing its allies for more conventional forces. A sizable U.S. pullback would undercut that argument-and would greatly strengthen the Gaullist demand for an independent, national nuclear deterrent...
...hour acceptance address. "My policy is a policy of the middle way," he declared, making clear that he planned no major departures in West Germany's domestic or foreign affairs. To the U.S., he gave assurance of the closest friendship. To Europe, he promised his strongest efforts to strengthen the budding ties of integration. There would be no disavowal of Konrad Adenauer's Franco-German pact, and he hoped Bonn would remain on warm terms with Paris. But, he added emphatically, "we must also cultivate relations with other European states, especially with Great Britain." It was hint enough...