“NEUTRALISING” GERMANY
Adenauer Opposes Proposal (Rec. 8 p.m.) BONN, December 14. The West German Chancellor (Dr. Konrad Adenauer) said today that any proposal to neutralise Germany was completely unacceptable to West Germany ana not worth discussing at the Berlin Big Four conference. He added that on that point he wants complete agreement with the East Germans.
Dr. Adenauer said it was impossible to neutralise a people of 50,000,000 against its will and take from it the right to defend its own skin if necessary. He listed three reasons for the French situation over ratifying the European Defence Community, which he wanted understood and appreciated in Germany. They were: (1) Fear of Germany. Frenchmen feared not. German invasion, but in-
volvement in war to reconquer lost German territory. (2) Fear of economic pressure. Frenchmen feared that the Germans, by hard work, would not be comfortable companions in European society. (3) Fear that France would cease to be a world Power and become merely a European Power.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27224, 16 December 1953, Page 11
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