Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What it boiled down to was this: a weak and divided Western Europe must insist on a helpless Germany, and until Gerrnany recovers Western Europe cannot recover. A strong Western Europe can face (and include) a revived Germany. The first alternative means a Russian victory in the next phase of East-West relations; the second means a Western victory...
...should sit down with Russia to talk about the German problem. The U.S. would insist (rightly) that Germany must be rehabilitated for the sake of Europe. The Russians would promptly try to divide the West by playing on the French (and others') fear of a strong Germany. With Western Union in its present inert state, the Russians would probably succeed in this maneuver...
...next fall the Big Four might sit down under quite different circumstances. By then there might be a move toward a U.S. military guarantee of Western Union, starting with practical staff cooperation in an Atlantic defense system. Western Union might be moving rapidly on the political and economic fronts...
Whether the U.S. and the Russians sat down at a conference table would matter a lot less than whether the U.S. could, in the next few months, assume a bold leadership to get Western Union moving and to work out a German policy that would fit in with Western Union...
Delegates to the Western Union conference of Foreign Ministers at The Hague last week got a small practical demonstration of the need for Western Union. On the Étoile du Nord, the international luxury express which makes a daily Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam run, they had to show their passports, railroad tickets or cash 16 times to 16 different officials in the three countries. At a Dutch border town the train was held up for an hour while inspectors made sure, the passengers had not bought too many U.S. cigarettes during the 20-minute stop at Brussels...