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...called his speech a turning point in French foreign policy. But support for ratification came from such veteran statesmen as René Pleven and Paul Reynaud, who argued that the plan to bring West German troops into a European army is specifically designed to prevent the rebirth of the Wehrmacht. Premier Antoine Pinay, who needs the support of the Radical Socialists (75 seats) to stay in power, was quoted as saying: "I am for a European army...
...need! That's what I want to have!" The man who was giving him what he wanted was a stocky Pomeranian lieutenant colonel named Heinz Guderian, showing off his new Panzers and motorized troops. He had developed them in the face of opposition from most of the Wehrmacht generals and he had brought them a long way from the days when schoolboys used to slit his canvas dummy tanks for a look inside. He and his tanks were to go farther yet-to the English Channel and almost, but not quite, to Moscow...
Like Old Times. To the outside world, the campaign was uncomfortably reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's home-front campaign against the Poles in the days before his Wehrmacht started World War II and as venomous as anything Soviet Russia hurled at Nazi Germany during the war. It was the kind of technique a dictatorship must use to put an oppressed population in a mood to fight a war. Yet neither Kennan nor the Russian Desk analysts in the State Department are ready to push their conclusions that far. For one thing, they doubt that 72-year-old Joseph Stalin...
Escaped East Germans have given West German interrogators a thorough picture of the Vopos. Aside from the occasional guarding of Red army arsenals, they have no police duties, but live in old Wehrmacht barracks and train in the art of war. Out in the field they rehearse platoon and company maneuvers, learn to operate heavy machine guns and the "Stalin Organ" (a multi-tubed rocket launcher). They have a naval arm of 10,000 and a fledgling air force. The Volkspolizei is a police force that walks like an army...
...whole force are ideologically certified Reds. In fact, the Russians, like the western allies, show some reluctance to rearm Germans. Their two prize Nazi trophies, captured Generals Friedrich von Paulus and Walther von Seydlitz, are still in Russia, apparently not trusted to run an army of Germans. Veteran Wehrmacht officers originally assigned to the Vopos are being shunted aside as unreliable. The Russians hope to rear a new generation of indoctrinated German officers, but seem to have recurring doubts about them...