Germans Receive Decisions With Mixed Feelings

Wanganui Chronicle, 21 December 1950, Page 5

Germans Receive Decisions With Mixed Feelings

LONDON, Dec. 20 (Recd. 7pm). — The decisions of the Atlantic Pact nations at Brussels were received with mixed feelings in West German political circles, says the ‘‘Daily Telegraph’s” correspondent in Bonn. ’ While even the Social Democrats I recognise the urgent need for a united j defensive front, there is general dissatisfaction with the fact, that Germany is allowed no part in the nego- ! liations. | Cabinet is maintaining great re--1 serve, but it can be said with certainty jthat Dr. Adenauer will make German : acceptance of the Brussels proposals : contingent on four conditions: | (1) Equality of status for German . units and their organisation in divi- • sions or corresponding formations. i (2) Equality in land armaments with other European armies. (3) Equality in political control and • in General Eisenhower’s headquarters. I (4) A very appreciable strengthen!ing of the Allied forces in Germany. ! The correspondent says that a • point which must weigh very heavily [With the Bonn Government is that [West German participation in the | Western defence force would consolijdate the country’s political division, thus magnifying the greatest spectre of all, namely, a civil war in which German would fight German in the name of rival ideologies.